Throughout WWII, cartoonist Bill Mauldin documented the adventures & misadventures of dogfaces Willie & Joe, symbols of the hard-pressed infantry, "the group which gives more & gets less than anybody else." In Up Front Mauldin joins an absorbing narrative account of just how hellish combat is to a selection of those cartoons. Reading thru this powerful book, one sees why Mauldin, in demythologizing the war, was often accused of undoing the efforts of the morale officers & politicians who assured the home front that our boys were having a fine time of it in Europe. No, Mauldin replied thru Willie & Joe, our boys are being maimed & killed every day. For his honesty, the troops loved him--& Mauldin loved them back.