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"Mac & Irene: A WWII Saga is based on the true story of Franklin ""Mac"" McMahon, Emmy and Peabody award-winning artist-reporter and filmmaker. In WWII, McMahon was a U.S. Army Air Corps B-17 navigator who survived the Stalag Luft III POW camp to return home to Chicago and his sweetheart, Irene. McMahon later served as the courtroom artist for the Emmett Till Trial and the infamous Chicago ""Conspiracy"" Trial of 1969/70. McMahon was also a Presidential and U.S. Space Program artist. Mac & Irene: A WWII Saga is the first in a trilogy on McMahon's legendary life and legacy. ""Mac maintained an aura of mystery about himself; that way, he wasn't pounced on by the guards and searched. He kept his sensitivity to the human condition alive by seeing into his captors. He stayed clean and orderly, implied he would be above escape. He earned freedom from being closely watched. 'Ya' frickin' Mac?' whispered a seasoned POW who bumped his shoulder during barracks check. 'I'm Mac, why?' His mouth was dry from not speaking. 'Don't ask, just meet me at the last goddamned lunch table on the right... And bring your frickin' map.'"" --from Mac & Irene: A WWII Saga"

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In Mac & Irene, Margot McMahon captures with subtlety, wit and an artist's vision the way the Greatest Generation saw the war-torn world that shaped their and our lives. -Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University and advisor to BBC's Our War With clarity and lyricism, Margot McMahon relays the story of her parents' love, trials, and eventual triumph over the greatest of hardships. Not to be missed. -Rachael Herron, bestselling memoirist As if uncovering a lost work of art, author Margot McMahon exquisitely reveals the World War II story through images that originally were stored in her prisoner-of-war father's mind, escaped into his drawings and paintings, and now run across the pages of this book. -Burt Constable, award-winning columnist, The Daily Herald

"""In Mac & Irene, Margot McMahon captures with subtlety, wit and an artist's vision the way the Greatest Generation saw the war-torn world that shaped their and our lives."" -Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus, Yale University and advisor to BBC's Our War ""With clarity and lyricism, Margot McMahon relays the story of her parents' love, trials, and eventual triumph over the greatest of hardships. Not to be missed."" -Rachael Herron, bestselling memoirist ""As if uncovering a lost work of art, author Margot McMahon exquisitely reveals the World War II story through images that originally were stored in her prisoner-of-war father's mind, escaped into his drawings and paintings, and now run across the pages of this book."" -Burt Constable, award-winning columnist, The Daily Herald "

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"Margot McMahon, daughter of Franklin ""Mac"" McMahon, award-winning artist-reporter and WWII veteran, is an internationally-acclaimed artist and sculptor with work exhibited at the Smithsonian and around the world in public and private collections."

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