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To End All Wars : The Graphic Anthology of The Great War Hardcover – 17 Jul 2014

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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: SOARING PENGUIN PRESS (17 July 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1908030135
  • ISBN-13: 978-1908030139
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 2.5 x 26 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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ONE OF POPMATTERS' BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2014

ONE OF BLEEDING COOL'S TOP 11 GRAPHIC NOVELS OF 2014

'This anthology you have in your hands is an important one because comics are one of the few media voices the establishment has yet to muzzle... I found these stories heartfelt, passionate, clever, controversial, thought-provoking, original and often crying out for sequels.' -- - Pat Mills, writer of Charley's War

'This fascinating, wide-ranging anthology challenges any revisionist glorifying of heroic sacrifice.' -- - Paul Gravett, The Independent

To End All Wars is not just worthy (some of the proceeds from each book go to Médecins Sans Frontières), but enjoyable and illuminating too.' - --James Smart, The Guardian

'This fascinating, wide-ranging anthology challenges any revisionist glorifying of heroic sacrifice.' -- - Paul Gravett, The Independent

'This wealth of voices is also a great strength: To End All Wars is not just worthy (some of the proceeds from each book go to Médecins Sans Frontières), but enjoyable and illuminating too.' - --The Guardian

'This wealth of voices is also a great strength: To End All Wars is not just worthy (some of the proceeds from each book go to Médecins Sans Frontières), but enjoyable and illuminating too.' - --The Guardian

'This stark, chiaroscuro, thick compilation begins to redress this deficit. It promotes a humanitarian view of the worldwide conflict as witnessed by not only famous and everyday men and women, but also by a diligent elephant, hounds, purported angels, and an Alpine cat.' - Best Books of 2014 as chosen by Pop Matters

'A remarkably well-chosen and commissioned set of pieces that complement each other without repetition, without any story you want to skip. Quite, quite remarkable.' - --Bleeding Cool

About the Author

Jonathan is a comics reviewer and writer based in the UK. To End All Wars is the first anthology he has tried to organise.

John Clark is a travel writer and cartoonist who goes by the nickname Brick. His book Depresso was published by Knockabout in 2011. Born Celt of Austro-Scottish blood. Drew first breath in Berne, Switzerland. ('49 was a good year.) Dragged round air force bases in Far East and Europe until deposited in Posh School, Rochester, England. Nine years later deemed red-brick failure. Consigned to military, church or industry.


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First of all this is a fabulous piece of writing and art. As a graphic novel/comic it can certainly hold it's head up in terms of scope, look and feel. As a piece of history writing and storytelling it certainly won't be giving you the fighting for freedom/war forced upon us/magnificent sacrifice opinion of WWI. Were it not for what we have been taught in the genre of 'people's histories' and 'forgotten voices' we may all have an establishment oriented view of the war. It covers a large variety of topics in it's 26 stories, yet leaves so much out that a sequel is surely merited. Never-the-less it's an encompassing collection anyway, from the home front to the German trenches, topics repeatedly not covered in other 'mainstream' works are shown superbly with a certain virtuosity in the editing of the tales in a recognisable timeline. Definitely one of the books of the year.
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Each story gives a moving account of what did happen during the WW1. It is interesting to note that some beautiful drawings were done by amateurs.
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Brilliant collection of stories on the first world war ! Not the same standard illustration wise as "charlies war" but brilliantly written stories on aspects of the war nelgected by other writters - nowhere else I would argue would you get a story about a solder getting VD and his treatment !! Or how the media was in bed with the British Govt using newspaper owners to push the Govt line ! Well worth the money if you are a serious student of the 1914- 1918 era in history.
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In a year which has seen us all bombarded with Government propaganda telling us how 'just' and 'right' the First World War was, it is with a breath of fresh air that we receive the truth: the tarnished, bloody, sacrificial act of man's inhumanity to man, in the form of the magnificent 'TO END ALL WARS'.

It is fair to say, that a colossal endeavour was undertaken when an intrepid group of gifted artists, writers, illustrators, and historians of the bloodiest period in recent human history banded together to produce what can only be described as a true labour of love, in the face of Political propaganda, to produce what - to my mind, at least - resembles a true, vivid, and most moving document of the tragedy and loss that is daily being sold to the general public as 'a noble cause'.
Seldom, do I read such a work of heart-felt devotion to what was, in essence, 'A futile, bloody exercise in human stupidity'. (the comment is my own).
The foreword for the book has been specially written by the great Pat Mills, notable for the exceptionally brilliant 'Charley's War'. The foreword, alone, is a masterpiece of truth and integrity to a slice of literature and art that every seeker of the truth should have on their coffee table or shelf.
I cannot praise this work of art highly enough......it has touched me in a way that few - if any books - have ever done before......

Lastly.....In the words of the last British 'Tommy', Harry Patch, who died recently, he described the First World War thus: "Organized murder."
When he was asked what advice he would give young men today, he responded: "Don't join the army."

Harry Patch's comments were 'whooshed' up by the British Government.......the same British Government that has now involved the people in yet another dubious and unsavoury conflict.

Buy 'To End All Wars'......try the truth, and not the propaganda.......
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i am only 80 pages in but i can say this:
-there are pages missing
-pagination is inaccurate, misprinted
-stories are interesting but the styles of the artists are vastly different. if you like the art of comics, then maybe half are worth reading, if you like the stories, then maybe a quarter are worth reading (so far!)

will update when i have finished!
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