It Was the War of the Trenches Non-Fiction These mind-bending mini-mysteries inspired by

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and Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton

A story of childhood longing and dreams as only Eisner Award winner Taiyo Matsumoto (Tekkonkinkreet) could tell it

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It Was the War of the Trenches Non-Fiction These mind-bending mini-mysteries inspired byWorld War I has long been an obsession of Jacques Tardi's. (His very first (rejected) 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 Tardi's defining, masterful statement on the subject. Tardi is not interested in the national politics, the strategies, or the battles: he focuses on the day to day of the grunts in the trenches, and, with icy, controlled fury and