![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is natural that only people who have been close to combat, and for a considerable length of time, will fully understand the ironies peculiar to battle experience. Mauldin has expressed their world in their own terms. ”) but there are others which, even now, can be properly appreciated only by combat soldiers. You will recognize many of the drawings, including the most celebrated (“Fresh, spirited American troops, flushed with victory, are bringing in thousands of hungry, ragged, battle-weary prisoners. Books combining pictures and prose by the same author are often a gamble, but this one is a rare feat: we have here not only the wonderful drawings with which Mauldin made his fame but a singularly able commentary on how the drawings were conceived and on the war itself, on war itself. He has probably seen too much war to be spoiled in that sense ever again. But readers of his book (it has a text as well as pictures) will doubt that he can be spoiled by early success. He is a best-seller and winner of a Pulitzer prize. Henry Holt and Company. $3.00.Īt the age of twenty-three or so, Sergeant Bill Mauldin finds himself the outstanding American cartoonist produced by the war. ![]()
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