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Charleys War (Vol. 8): Hitlers Youth [Hardcover]

Pat Mills , Joe Colquhoun
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28 Oct 2011 Charley's War
In this explosive new volume of never-before-collected comic strip, Charley comes face to face with a young corporal who will eventually change the face of the world as leader of the Nazi party: Adolf Hitler. The eighth action-packed volume of Charleys War is rich in the detailed minutiae of the terror-punctuated existence of a Tommy.

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  • Hardcover: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Titan Books (28 Oct 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0857682997
  • ISBN-13: 978-0857682994
  • Product Dimensions: 22 x 2.5 x 29.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 167,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Charley's War is a war comic against which all others are to be judged. It's the best of it's class, and Hitler's Youth is the best of the series." --Comics Cavern

"If you are a fan of the original Charley's War series, a fan of war stories, or just a fan of good writing and art, I would highly suggest this." --The Daily Blam!

"YOU NEED TO READ IT. The history that is put into this, with the facts, just moves it up 10 notches above anything else I have read when it comes to war comics." --Comic Attack

"The art is detailed and dark... The material was extremely well-researched, and it feels authentic... History buffs will find this volume an unusual take on familiar material." --Comics Worth Reading

"The writing and art here are fantastic and the storytelling is solid. This is the craft of comics at its best... If you love war comics then CHARLEY'S WAR is a must own for you." --Ain't It Cool News

"The level of detail in these comic strips is amazing, and you can tell that a lot of research has gone into the writing and artwork." --Blogomatic3000

"The black and white art is brilliantly, suitably, gritty, and the story avoids either taking its subject too lightly or sensationalising battle." --Skinny

"Colquhoun's pencils are gritty yet complicated, and he's equally adept at conveying quiet moments in the trenches as he is at grand dogfights." --Nerdy Nothings

About the Author

Joe Colquhoun worked on a large volume of titles in his 30 year career in the UK comics industry, including Lion, Champion, Buster and Battle. He is probably best remembered for work on Battle, including Johnny Red and Charleys War.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Charley Vs Adolf 17 Oct 2011
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Yet more cracking stuff from Messers Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun, with volume 8 we enter 1918 - though if memory serves Charley goes on to serve through the Allied Invasion of Russia to support the White Army and makes an appearence in the opening year of WWII, so there's much more to come.

Again a cracking script is brought alive by the art of the Late Joe Colquhoun, his attention to detail is stunning and the aerial sequences with Wilf in RFC are brilliant.

Having Adolf Hitler in boys comic strip in the 1980's as somebody other than a full blown Nazi monster was new and dangerous ground, a few years later when a comic strip featuring young Adolf visting his brother in Liverpool appeared "The New Adventures of Hitler" a hissy fit ensued. Pat Mills handles this storyline well and it's throughly researched, hats off to Mr Mills.

Roll on Volume 9.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A comic strip - but not much to laugh at 22 Dec 2011
By GordonD
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"Charley's War" is widely regarded as one of the best British comic strips of the twentieth century. It tells the story of a young soldier in the trenches during World War One, but it's about as far removed as you can get from the gung-ho "Commando" comics we all read in our youth. For one thing, it depicts the Germans as real people, not cyphers whose only dialogue is "Donner und Blitzen!" or "AAAARGH!" as they get shot. It also shows that there were cruel, sadistic officers on both sides - check out the Field Punishment in this volume.

This is the eighth book in the series and is slightly different in that the first half focuses not on Charley but on a certain German corporal, one Adolf Hitler. It shows how often he came very close to being killed (an event which would of course have changed the course of history) and if these events are true - and with the quality of writer Pat Mills' research I don't doubt that they are firmly based on truth - then it lends weight to the theory that somebody down there was looking after him.

Charley does feature in the second half of the book, and we also meet his brother Wilf again. Wilf is in the Royal Flying Corps and we see how dangerous their daily lives were too. Forget the glamour of cruising around the skies in a wooden biplane - the days are long gone when pilots on opposing sides would wave to each other when they met in the air.

As usual, Mills has supplied notes at the end covering the background to the stories, both placing them in the real-life historical context and showing how the original editors interfered with his work, for example by adding captions to scenes that were self-explanatory. These are my only gripe with the book - the notes are headed up by episode number but there are no corresponding numbers on the strips themselves, making it necessary to count forward from the beginning to find the strip to which a particular note refers. But that's a minor problem.

If you've already been following Charley's adventures then you won't be disappointed with this book. If however you haven't come across him before, then I'd recommend that you start with the first volume, which shows how he originally joined up (lying about his age as so many eager young men did back then). Chances are you'll be hooked and before long you'll have ordered the other books in the series and will have caught up with the rest of us!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting 4 April 2013
By Josito
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Very interesting and well documented (historically)
I love war-comics and this one is plenty of action and
very good art
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