{"product_id":"willie-joe-come-home","title":"Willie \u0026 Joe Come Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1945, a great tide of battered soldiers began flowing back to the United States from around the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll they wanted was to settle back into quiet workaday lives without fear. How tragic that the forces unleashed by World War II made this simple wish impossible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second volume of Fantagraphics' series reprinting Mauldin's greatest, Willie \u0026amp; Joe: Back Home brilliantly chronicles the struggles and disillusionments of these early postwar years and, in doing so, tells Bill Mauldin's own extraordinary story of his journey home to a wife he barely knew and a son he had only seen in pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe drawings capture the texture and feel, the warp and woof, of this confusing time: the ubiquitous hats and cigarettes, the domestic rubs, the rising fear of another war, and new conflicts over Civil Rights, civil liberties, and free speech.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bill Maudlin, Bill Mauldin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46282850992297,"sku":"9781606993514","price":39.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781606993514.jpg?v=1756887752","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/willie-joe-come-home","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}