Goddamn This War!

By Jacques Tardi, Jean-Pierre Verney, Helge Dascher (translator)

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1 author picked Goddamn This War! as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I read Tardi's classic graphic novel, It Was a War of the Trenches, a few years ago and loved it as much as one can love a book of that level of horror. In this book, Tardi returns to World War One, drawing on the reminiscences of his grandfather; Tardi recounts the French experience.

The first-person narrative really shows the horror and tragedy of war. A commitment to telling truths is furthered by the presence of black and Asian colonial troops, who are still largely written out of the mainstream depictions of this conflict.

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