![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tardi is bringing very specific and very effective weapons to bear in his chillingly successful effort to convey particular horror. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Yet he also delves deeply into the underlying causes of the war, the madness, the cynical political exploitation of patriotism. Like Remarque, he focuses on the day to day of the grunts in the trenches, and, with icy, controlled fury and disgust, with sardonic yet deeply sympathetic narration, he brings that existence alive as no one has before or since. Tardi is not interested in the national politics, the strategies, or the battles. (His very firstâ€"rejectedâ€"comics story dealt with the subject, as does his most recent work, the two-volume Putain de Guerre.) But It Was the War of the Trenches is Tardiâ€TMs defining, masterful statement on the subject, a graphic novel that can stand shoulder to shoulder with Erich Maria Remarqueâ€TMs All Quiet on the Western Front and Ernest Hemingwayâ€TMs A Farewell to Arms. Tardiâ€TMs World War I masterpiece finally in English! World War I, that awful, gaping wound in the history of Europe, has long been an obsession of Jacques Tardiâ€TMs. ![]()
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