Tardi's WWI: It Was the War of the Trenches/Goddamn This War!: It Was the War of

Publisher Description

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I in 1914, Fantagraphics releases a deluxe edition of Jacques Tardi's acknowledged masterpieces of the conflict. The first book, It Was The Year of the Trenches, focuses on the day-to-day horrors of the men in the trenches, creating an astonishingly evocative world unlike any other depiction of life on the front line, and featuring some of Tardi's greatest artwork. His second masterwork, Goddamn This War! Is told with a sustained sense of outrage and pitch-black gallows humour. An essential purchase.

Review

...It Was the War of the Trenches... is one of the most passionately bleak works in the history of comics. Tardi is unremitting in his focus on the small, human details of the catastrophe ... Goddamn This War!... bring[s] a surprising beauty to the horrors it depicts.--Gabriel Winslow-Yost

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"...Tardi's WWI... brings together the great French cartoonist's two incroyable masterpieces of the first war..."

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Deluxe edition of Jacques Tardi's twin WW1 masterpieces. Tardi is recognised as one of the most significant graphic artists of the century. Also available from Turnaround as individual editions.

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