C'était la guerre des tranchées

Jacques Tardi’s unflinching, single-volume masterpiece, published by Casterman in 1993, strips away the romance of World War I to reveal the grinding horror and absurdity of trench warfare. Through stark, meticulously researched black-and-white art and a fragmented, episodic narrative, Tardi immerses the reader in the mud, rats, and senseless death endured by ordinary soldiers on both sides. As both writer and artist, Tardi channels his lifelong anti-militarist passion into a work that stands as a definitive, searing graphic novel of the Great War.