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'The story highlights the random chaos of warfare and sustains an understated but heartfelt sympathy for the plight of the ordinary soldier.' --The Daily Mail
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In September 1917, Charley is caught up in the mutiny by troops against harsh treatment at Etaples and faces divided loyalties as the rebellion gathers pace. Eventually, back on the front line, he faces death once more as a stretcher bearer...This seventh volume of "Charley's War" is rich in the detailed minutiae of the terror-punctuated existence of a Tommy.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I reviewed the first release of Messrs Mills & Colquhoun's Opus and this the seventh offering is for me by far the best. Not that it is in quality any better than the others no, it's the subject matter a 20th century war being directed by 19th century Generals resulting in the unthinkable a "Mutiny" in the British Army. This is the "Mutiny" at Etaples one of only three I've come across involving British Troops in WW1 though it was nothing like on the scale experienced by the French or Russians.
As well as Etaples Charley is also in the horrific battle at Passchendaele and for me has one of the best episodes of Charleys war with a "flash forward" to a battlefield tour in 1982 and an old soldier tries to recall the name of the young cockney stretcher bearer who saved his life.
All in all it's Classic stuff British Comics at its best and the sooner titan books crack on and speed up the release dates the better.
As well as Etaples Charley is also in the horrific battle at Passchendaele and for me has one of the best episodes of Charleys war with a "flash forward" to a battlefield tour in 1982 and an old soldier tries to recall the name of the young cockney stretcher bearer who saved his life.
All in all it's Classic stuff British Comics at its best and the sooner titan books crack on and speed up the release dates the better.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I started buying the Charley's War series after originally reading them in Battle when I was younger. I've now reached the point where I stopped reading Battle and so the stories are new to me. I'm pleased and surprised that the stories are still as good as the earlier stories that I still remembered. The artwork is excellent and the stories really take you into the mud and horror of the trenches. My one criticism is Pat Mills commentary at the back. Normally I find these interesting, but his latest offerings are less about the stories and his work with Joe Colquhoun and more his opinions on war stated as fact. He may have read that Percy Topliss was involved in the mutiny, I've read equally reliable sources that he was never anywhere near there. If you're interested in World War One and a lover of great british comics and fabulous artwork, than this is for you, but ignore the socio-political claptrap at the end.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Each year, around this time, I eagerly await the amazon email that the years Charleys war is on its way to my letterbox. Sure I have all the actual comic episodes sellotaped together in my study, now yellowing after 24years but Theres something really nice about having the latest volume all collected in hardcover.
Charleys War is of course the best novel,graphic or otherwise written about the First World War. There is no reason not to own all the volumes. The characters have depth and substance. The story is compelling and gripping. Sure, we know that Charley isnt going to die, but we know that characters who have been in for years might at any moment.
The Germans are not just the silly targets that every other comic portray them as, they win and win often.They have heros and rotters in their ranks. Evrything you see is quite beleivable and Jo Colquhouns artwork is staggering.
One panel has Young Albert getting his first chance to man a Vickers HMG. He has been desperate to do this for years but LCpl Smith 70 never lets him. Smithy is wounded and Young Albert snaps his head round to look at the gun. The drawing is just a few squiggles showing Albert at some distance. His expression in those few lines is timeless.
No reveiw is going to do this masterpeice justice. Just buy it.
And now my niggles.
Each Year Pat Mills writes the introduction. Each year he waves a socialist anarchist left wing revolutionary flag harder and harder. This year his Introduction is entirely made out of Citizen Smith style socialist twaddle, his flag is the size of the old soviet union and he is spinning it at 1200rpm.
Mills would it seems have wished that the whole British army in WW1 pack up their kitbags and go back to blighty. Wonderful. Im sure the Kaisers troops would have followed them very happily and we would now be living under Germanic Kulture. Mills is desperate to find similaritys with the current Afghan war. In short he sullies the memories of all those Tommies that died for something they beleived in. A cause that they in the end were successful in. Mill's commenties and introductions get more rabid and foaming each year. I'm interested in what he has to say next year, assuming he hasnt exploded with self rightious smugness?
Charleys War is of course the best novel,graphic or otherwise written about the First World War. There is no reason not to own all the volumes. The characters have depth and substance. The story is compelling and gripping. Sure, we know that Charley isnt going to die, but we know that characters who have been in for years might at any moment.
The Germans are not just the silly targets that every other comic portray them as, they win and win often.They have heros and rotters in their ranks. Evrything you see is quite beleivable and Jo Colquhouns artwork is staggering.
One panel has Young Albert getting his first chance to man a Vickers HMG. He has been desperate to do this for years but LCpl Smith 70 never lets him. Smithy is wounded and Young Albert snaps his head round to look at the gun. The drawing is just a few squiggles showing Albert at some distance. His expression in those few lines is timeless.
No reveiw is going to do this masterpeice justice. Just buy it.
And now my niggles.
Each Year Pat Mills writes the introduction. Each year he waves a socialist anarchist left wing revolutionary flag harder and harder. This year his Introduction is entirely made out of Citizen Smith style socialist twaddle, his flag is the size of the old soviet union and he is spinning it at 1200rpm.
Mills would it seems have wished that the whole British army in WW1 pack up their kitbags and go back to blighty. Wonderful. Im sure the Kaisers troops would have followed them very happily and we would now be living under Germanic Kulture. Mills is desperate to find similaritys with the current Afghan war. In short he sullies the memories of all those Tommies that died for something they beleived in. A cause that they in the end were successful in. Mill's commenties and introductions get more rabid and foaming each year. I'm interested in what he has to say next year, assuming he hasnt exploded with self rightious smugness?
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Never fails to move and please
Charley's War is always brilliant, the collection of Battle comic strips of young Private Charley Bourne, fighting in the worst hells of the Western Front. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Jo Bennie
The latest edition of the best war comic ever!
"Charley's War" was a comic strip that featured prominently in the British comic "Battle" (later "Battle Action" and then "Battle Action Force") and evolved into that comic's... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Jared M
The Trenches Stripped Bare
I picked up on Charley's War through a review on a comics blog a few years ago having missed Battle and the strip when it was first published. Read more
Published 16 months ago by The Kinniburgh Kid
Brilliant
I bought this book as a present for an avid collector of books by this author, he was delighted with it,in fact anything to do with the first and second world wars. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Keely
news from the front
another winner, charleys war at its usual best, got it for xmas and halfway through it already, if it wasnt for dinner i would have had it all read.
Published 17 months ago by P. Ellwood
Groundbreaking anti-war War saga continues...
Volume seven of Pat Mill's & Joe Colquhon's story of an ordinary Tommy in the trenches of WWI covers September to December 1917. Read more
Published 17 months ago by T. Smith
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