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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 741.5 EAN: 9781840236279 ISBN: 1840236272 Label: Titan Books Manufacturer: Titan Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 112 Publication Date: 2005-03 Publisher: Titan Books Release Date: March 01, 2005 Studio: Titan Books Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: From renowned UK comics writer Pat Mills (Marshal Law, Slaine) and legendary artist Joe Colquhoun (Johnny Red) comes a truly classic piece of British comics history, by turns thrilling, humorous and horrifying. In 1916, Charley Bourne lies about his age to enlist and fight on the battlefields of France. But thoughts of glory and patriotism are swept aside by the bloody artillery barrage of horror and needless sacrifice amidst the trenches of the First World War. Rich in the detailed minutiae of the terror-punctuated existence of a 'Tommy', Charley's War features a brand new introduction and 'director's commentary' by Pat Mills, a cultural history of the comic, and an essay on the Battle of the Somme. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - SublimeIt's tough to know how to express gratitude to the Publishers. Once again Charleys war can be read by a new generation. This comic series from Battle and Battle action in the seventies and early eighties is simply the most moving, shocking, profound, detailed, magically drawn, superbly scripted Graphic war story ever. The characters will suck you in, they have the depth and belivabilty that i remember as a boy reading and it making me think...ahh..this is what the war was really ... Read More Rating:  - From the East End to the Western FrontThis beautifully produced black and white hardcover collects the first thirty or so episodes of the nearly 300 originally published in the British comic book "Battle Action" from 1979-85. The story follows Bethnal Green teenager Charley from his enlistment in 1916 through the end of the war, with this initial volume focusing on his acclimation to the Western Front and the Battle of the Somme. The book opens with a fiery foreword from the series' writer, who positions it as the antithesis of both the ... Read More Rating: - Charley's warAbsolutely fantastic just as emotional and visually exciting as when I first read them as a child. Beautifully presented and reprinted. Highly reccomended to anyone interested in the first world war or looking to get into studying it as a hobby. Keep em coming !!! Rating: - So very close to being a masterpieceI must admit that I had my doubts about Charley's War before reading it. It just didn't seem possible to even come close to capturing the horrors of war through a comic. But then I realized that this wasn't a valid doubt. Because of course you can't. Nothing - books, movies, comics, documentaries, and so on - can truly make someone understand what war is all about. Only war itself can do that. You must thus go to war in order to fully understand war. Yet still, through the use ... Read More Rating: - WWI in the comics at lastI have been a student of the first world war for some time and I have also been a fan of comics. I ran across this book around a month ago at my local library and was positively thrilled to finally find a comic book treatment for world war 1. The art style is very reminicent of the old war comics from the 50's and 60's but the work itself dates from the 70's so this is not surprising and really works well in the story, the tales are well balanced if a little short(due of course to the format they were originally ... Read More 
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