Little remembered today, but one of the biggest celebrities coming out of WWII because of his groundbreaking cartoons, Bill Mauldin deserves to be remembered. In many ways, his earnest and honest yet still humorous takes on the life of the front line soldier helped generate the modern political cartoon and his influence can be seen even in today's grapic novels. A hero to every GI suffering the indignities of warfare and army idiocy, his postwar career was uneven until settling in to being an award winning political cartoonist as well as war hoping journalist. While the book is a good and informative read, it suffers from lacking some depth....too brief a take on a fascinating subject. A website where some of his work can be appreciated: http://oddlots.digitalspace.net/upfront/upfront.html