It Was the War of the Trenches

by Jacques Tardi

Book Overview

World War I, that awful, gaping wound in the history of Europe, 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, a graphic novel that can stand shoulder to shoulder with Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Ernest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606993534
• ISBN13: 9781606993538
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher