A soldier's sketchbook
Subtitle: from the front lines of World War II
By: Joseph Farris
Publisher: National Geographic; National Geographic Society
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781426208171
Subjects: Correspondence; United States; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 100th; Art and the war; ART / Individual Artists / Artists Books; Campaigns; American Personal narratives; World War, 1939-1945; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military; HISTORY / Military / World War II
Description: "New Yorker cartoonist and painter Joseph Farris chronicles his experience in World War II through letters and sketches that he wrote at the time. The letters, some of which are reproduced as facsimiles, are illustrated with photographs, artifacts, and other archival documents as well as newly commissioned maps. The voice of the 20-something narrator in the letters is balanced with the voice of the man today, who interweaves his own commentary into the book to explain gaps in the correspondence. All told, the book is a rich and poignant glimpse at the experience of one man's journey through the European theater of war"--
Table of contents: title: We are now real soldiers; title: The West Point of the south; title: Living on borrowed time; title: Our Christmas on the line; title: Coffee, donuts and Red Cross girls; title: Headlines, death and victory; title: Hot water out of a faucet; title: Hard to believe this is the army.