![]() No less credit goes to the heavily researched art, of the clean-line school of Herge fame. Tardi’s stories rely not only on his grandfather’s tales, but other veterans’ reminiscences and histories to achieve stinging, stomach-churning verisimilitude. Everyone should read this book and re-learn the lesson that war is not diplomacy by other means, but the most hellish, useless and destructive tool at our disposal, and should be found somewhere past the last resort. ![]() Just ordinary men trapped in a diseased, bloody, muddy, irrational, existential holocaust. ![]() ![]() Trenches is a series of vignettes about the dehumanizing horror, the maddening boredom and the grotesque suffering at the front, leavened only by the blackest of humor. But if they are of the caliber of Trenches, I want them all. Or so I hear – I haven’t seen the others. Tardi was greatly affected by his grandfather’s stories about World War I, and has published several graphic novels using them as a base. 5, 2010 - Jacques Tardi’s masterful It Was the War of the Trenches ($24.99) was originally published in Europe in 1993, but thanks to Fantagraphics it has finally made it to the U.S. ![]()
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