Created 15 years after the completion of his Eisner Award-winning World War I masterwork It Was the War of the Trenches , Tardi's Goddamn This War! is no mere sequel or extension, but a brand new, wholly individual graphic novel that serves as a companion piece to Trenches but can be read entirely on its own. Vastly different sequentially (eschewing Trenches ' splintered narrative, Goddamn is split into six chronological chapters, one for each year of the war), graphically (Tardi deploys his more recent pen-ink-and-watercolor technique, with the bold colors of the early chapters fading into a grimy near-monochrome in the later ones as the war drags on), and narratively (all of Goddamn is told, with insight, dark wit and despair, as a first-person reminiscence/narration by an unnamed soldier), Goddamn This War! shares with Trenches its sustained sense of outrage, pitch-black gallows humor, and impeccably scrupulous historical exactitude. In fact, Goddamn This War! includes an extensive year-by-year historical text section written by Tardi's frequent World War I research helpmate, the historian and collector Jean-Pierre Verney, including dozens of stunning rare photographs and visual documents from his personal collection.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1606995820
ISBN13:9781606995822
Release Date:July 2013
Publisher:Fantagraphics Books
Length:152 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 7.9" x 10.6"
Age Range:16 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 11 and higher
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