Goddamn this War!
Title | Goddamn this War! PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Tardi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Comic books, strips, etc |
ISBN | 9781606995822 |
Jacques Tardi's graphic novel Goddamn This War! is split into six chronological chapters, one for each year of WWI, drawn in a pen-ink-and-watercolor technique, with the bold colors of the early chapters fading into a grimy near-monochrome as the war drags on. It is told, with insight, dark wit and despair, as a first-person reminiscence/narration by an unnamed soldier.
It was the War of the Trenches
Title | It was the War of the Trenches PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Tardi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 9781606993538 |
The experiences of World War I from the perspectives of soldiers on the battle field and their families at home.
Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder
Title | Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Tardi |
Publisher | Fantagraphics Books |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2020-06-23 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1683962869 |
The first of two volumes presenting all of the world-renowned hardboiled crime graphic novels (one of which has never before been collected in English!). In the never-before-collected Griffu, the titular character is a legal advisor, not a private eye, but even he knows that when a sultry blonde appears in his office after hours, he shouldn't trust her ― and she doesn't disappoint. Griffu is soon ensnared in a deadly web of sexual betrayal, real estate fraud, and murder. In West Coast Blues, a young sales executive goes to the aid of an accident victim, and finds himself sucked into a spiral of violence involving an exiled war criminal and two hired assassins. This volume also offers a bonus, 21-page unfinished story by Manchette and Tardi, as well as a single page introduction to another incomplete story, both appearing in English for the first time.
The Fortune of War
Title | The Fortune of War PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick O'Brian |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780393037067 |
Aubrey and Maturin are caught in the outbreak of the War of 1812.
War for the Oaks
Title | War for the Oaks PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Bull |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2001-07-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0765300346 |
Eddi McCandry, an unemployed Minneapolis rock singer, finds herself drafted into an invisible war between the faerie filk.
Act of War
Title | Act of War PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Cheevers |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2013-12-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1101638648 |
WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE “I devoured Act of War the way I did Flyboys, Flags of Our Fathers and Lost in Shangri-la.”—Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author In 1968, the small, dilapidated American spy ship USS Pueblo set out to pinpoint military radar stations along the coast of North Korea. Though packed with advanced electronic-surveillance equipment and classified intelligence documents, its crew, led by ex–submarine officer Pete Bucher, was made up mostly of untested young sailors. On a frigid January morning, the Pueblo was challenged by a North Korean gunboat. When Bucher tried to escape, his ship was quickly surrounded by more boats, shelled and machine-gunned, forced to surrender, and taken prisoner. Less than forty-eight hours before the Pueblo’s capture, North Korean commandos had nearly succeeded in assassinating South Korea’s president. The two explosive incidents pushed Cold War tensions toward a flashpoint. Based on extensive interviews and numerous government documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, Act of War tells the riveting saga of Bucher and his men as they struggled to survive merciless torture and horrendous living conditions set against the backdrop of an international powder keg.
The Things They Carried
Title | The Things They Carried PDF eBook |
Author | Tim O'Brien |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547420293 |
A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.