It was the war of the trenches

" The war to end all wars has become a magisterial comic book to end all vomic books. I seldom give blirbs, but this book is aan essential classic. Among all of Jaques Tardi's towering achievements as a comics artist, nothing looms larger than this devastating crater of e work. It' compulsively readable wail of Existential despair, a kaleidoscope of war's dehumanizing brutality and of everyman's suffering, as well as a deadpan masrerpiece of the darkest black humor. The richly composed and obsessively researched drawings-perfectly poised between cartoon and illustration - march to the relentless beats of Tardi's three horizontal panels per page to dig e hole deep inside your brain. This is one Hell of a book" (Art Spiegelman)