There’s also the poetry of Sassoon and Owens. In non-comics fiction about WWI there’s Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun, Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms., Pat Barker’s brilliant Regeneration trilogy and Mills tells us that Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front was an inspiration. The other two I would recommend to check out to help you see this battle as emblematic of the horrors and idiocy of war and war strategy on behalf of the rich and powerful are Jacques Tardi’s masterpiece It Was the War of the Trenches, and Joe Sacco’s The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme, which is really a silent 24 foot panorama of one day in that battle.
Of the three classics I ‘d count this one. Over the course of that single battle there were over a million deaths and wounded. I’ve now read at least three comics greats in the last year on the Battle of Somme, in WWI, 1916, the greatest disaster in British military history, where the real villains depicted are less the Germans than the British military aristocracy, the generals, the commanders on the field that insisted on going ahead with a misguided and suicidal battle plan that cost them 60,000 deaths in the first DAY of the battle. Seuss William Shakespeare J.R.R.July 1 addition: It's the 100 year anniversary of one of the most horrific military disasters of WWI, The Battle of the Somme, so I re-post my reviews of 2-3 of the best: Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.
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