Name: It was the War of the Trenches
ISBN: 9781606993538

Jacques Tardi

The experiences of World War I from the perspectives of soldiers on the battle field and their families at home.

It was the War of the Trenches

Gavin

Could’ve been a dull war-is-hell lament, but instead it’s brightened by misanthropy and fit contempt. And then contempt’s abrupt end.


  
Amazing how much harm we can inflict on men and beasts. On men, fine. It’s their war after all.




Wordy, and most of its wit and momentum are in the words. This strikes me as important to the experience of static deadlock war:


  
the big cannons far behind the lines started firing, in order to remind everyone that the war was still on and that the time for hope was still far...

Bryan Maniotakis

Absolute despair, from back to front. This WW1 story tells tales of French soldiers in the trenches, and does a masterful job of depicting the pure hell within.