By Lambil & Cauvin Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849185318 Lambil and Cauvin’s latest from Cinebook takes a look at one of the inevitabilities of war – the wounded. Pinned down by a ceaseless bombardment of Confederate artillery the Union Army is struggling to cope with the injured. They have been ordered to stand their ground and […]
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Gilbert Wilkinson’s ‘what a war!’
By Mark Warby Published in Issue 535 of The Jester magazine, October 2019 Eighty years ago, on 3 September 1939, England once again found itself at war with Germany. A little under six weeks later, on 13 October, the Daily Herald announced a new cartoon series by Gilbert Wilkinson, titled ‘What A War!’ They revealed […]
Bear’s Tooth Vol 3: Werner
By Yann & Henriet Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183512 To date this has been an exceptional series about three friends torn apart by the rise of Hitler and the outbreak of war. The first two volumes have taken the time to show us the depth of that initial friendship, the friends’ passion for aviation, and how, […]
Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through The Sri Lankan Conflict
By Dix & Pollock Publisher: New Internationalist ISBN: 9780271084978 This is an excellent if harrowing story of innocents being caught up the war zone of northern Sri Lanka, based on survivor testimony. Starting with the Boxing Day tsunami we follow the impact on two families as their everyday existence is ripped apart. But there’s little […]
Bear’s Tooth 2: Hanna
By Yann & Henriet Publisher: Cinebook ISBN: 9781849183352 Born in Polish Silesia where the locals spoke both Polish and German, Max is the perfect undercover operative and the Americans plan to use him. Parachuting in behind enemy lines he is met by a resistance force but not before the allies take heavy losses. Both sides […]
A New Jerusalem
By Benjamin Dickson Publisher: New Internationalist ISBN: 9781780264424 A New Jerusalem is a story of new beginnings at the end of WW2 where an eleven-year-old boy awaits the return of his father. They live in Bristol, heavily bombed during the war, where rationing still bites and children play amongst the bombed-out detritus of other people’s […]
