A good half of this deals with the war years when he went right on drawing in Sicily and Italy for the 45th Division News and later Stars and Stripes, created those lovably scruffy immortals, Willie and Joe, and towards the end of the war had his own confrontation with Patton who would have liked to have seen them polished up with spit. The book will be illustrated with 167 photos and his own drawings

I think, to Mauldin if you survived WWII, you had grabbed the brass ring. This is his autobiography of the war years. There are some great cartoons, and an unflinching look at what the war was to him, and a lot of other soldiers. ( )

Ev ery World War II collection needs this wonderful book. ( )

Funny autobiography of one of the greatest battle artists ( )

Bill Mauldin, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist of WWII, recounts the history of his life, with the major portion being his adventures in WWII Sicily and Italy. The characters in his cartoons are a reflection of the man--saucy, sassy, rebellious, disdainful of authority and creative in methods of circumventing official rules. Despite all of these unhealthy characteristics for success in the Army, Mauldin was able to win the hearts of the common GI and the hearts of a grateful nation through his sympathetic renditions of the lowly frontline soldiers, Willie and Joe. ( )