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...Bill Mauldin's Army dates from 1939, from the lean waiting days of leggings, dishpan helmets, the first jeeps, and upended logs dignified by the sign "howitzer" tacked to their wooden trails. Mauldin's book takes that army through its adolescence in training and its maturity under fire. His cartoons tell a lot about what made that army grow, and even more about how Mauldin grew with...
...year-old contributor to the 45th Division News, Mauldin's drawings (of which this book reprints 439) retained most of the stock situations of the civilian cartoonist's view of the army. There were the gags about KP, guard duty, and the soldier whose wife turns up in the WAC's. But as you thumb through this handsome book, as Mauldin's outfit moves from training stateside to Sicily, then Italy, the top sergeant gags disappear. Instead there are the drawings that eventually took Mauldin away from his division and gave his a job doing them full time...
...Mauldin was an editorial cartoonist and a good one, more remarkable since most of his drawings were done for squeamish service papers. He laughs at airmen and officers, sneers at the "garritroopers"--"too far forward t'wear ties an' to far back t'git shot." The only people who keep out from under Mauldin's wrath are the infantrymen--Willie and Joe. Mauldin's heart lies squarely with the dogface. One thing Sloane's book lacks is the biting accompanying text of the earlier Mauldin...
...Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane's classic Civil War novel, handsomely translated by Writer-Director John Huston into one of the best war films ever made; with Audie Murphy and Bill Mauldin (TIME...
...Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane's classic Civil War novel, handsomely translated by Writer-Director John Huston into one of the best war films ever made; with Audie Murphy and Bill Mauldin (TIME...