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Bill Mauldin's Army collects what the cover itself calls "Bill Mauldin's Greatest World War II Cartoons," and the cover sets the tone perfectly: a weary, helmeted GI leans against a Cavalry-marked jeep, head bowed into his hand in a gesture of exhausted resignation that feels immediately human and honest. The cover art, penciled and inked by Mauldin himself, captures the quiet, bone-tired dignity that made his wartime work so enduring. At $12.95 in 1983, this Presidio Press collection is a fitting showcase for one of the most empathetic artistic voices to emerge from the Second World War.