Goddamn This War!

By Jacques Tardi

Created 15 years after the completion of his Eisner Award-winning World War I masterwork It Was the War of the Trenches , Tardi's Goddamn This War! is no mere sequel or extension, but a brand new, wholly individual graphic novel that serves as a companion piece to Trenches but can be read entirely on its own. Vastly different sequentially (eschewing Trenches ' splintered narrative, Goddamn is split into six chronological chapters, one for each year of the war), graphically (Tardi deploys his more recent pen-ink-and-watercolor technique, with the bold colors of the early chapters fading into a grimy near-monochrome in the later ones as the war drags on), and narratively (all of Goddamn is told, with insight, dark wit and despair, as a first-person reminiscence/narration by an unnamed soldier), Goddamn This War! shares with Trenches its sustained sense of outrage, pitch-black gallows humor, and impeccably scrupulous historical exactitude. In fact, Goddamn This War! includes an extensive year-by-year historical text section written by Tardi's frequent World War I research helpmate, the historian and collector Jean-Pierre Verney, including dozens of stunning rare photographs and visual documents from his personal collection.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606995820
• ISBN13: 9781606995822
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.9" x 10.6"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher