enemy ace war idyll hc 1990 dc 1 1st vf

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Enemy Ace War Idyll HC (1990 DC) #1-1ST VF

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This is the ENEMY ACE: WAR IDYLL HARDCOVER GRAPHIC NOVEL in NEW condition. The book is still in the original shrink wrap. Pictures are of the actual item you are bidding on.
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Story: In this masterful work of war and its repercussions, Pratt tells in a visceral and surreal style, the story of two war veterans--one from World War I, the other from Vietnam--who meet in a German sanitarium. There they discover a truth that neither expected, but both must come to accept. George Pratt brings the meaning of war and the emotional scars it leaves on its victims, the survivors, to life in characters who are generations apart but who suffer from the same endless mental anguish for the rest of their lives. Each has been left to wrestle with their own mental demons long after their wars are over. This is a very emotional novel that left me to ponder the fate of all those who tasted combat. My heart goes out to those poor souls whose respective governments left them alone to deal with their personal horrors once the smoke has cleared. I'm not afraid to admit to shedding a tear at the end of this wonderful novel. This book, like "All Quiet on the Western Front" should be required reading by anyone who is contemplating joining the military. Pratt's work challenges the conventional reader. This is without doubt the most immersive piece of sequential art I have ever read. Each panel is a painted impressionistic masterpiece. The story is a monument to the author's feelings and experiences and research into the trauma of war. Pratt's artistic style is suited perfectly to the grim historical setting. The protagonist is lifted from his comic book origin in a fitting mature tribute. I didn't like this book the first time I read it, but now rank it with the best war stories in any format. A haunted update of D.C. Comic's "Enemy Ace" series, which was melancholy enough in its original incantation, with doomed planes exploding into fireballs above the trenches and victorious aces, notably the titular Hans von Hammer, somberly saluting their defeated foes. Here the Hammer is old, dying in a hospital bed in the 1960s, when he's visited by a journalist who wants to hear of the ace's heroic, traumatic past. The Hammer relates hell in the trenches following a crash, complete with a gas attack, hand-to-hand combat, and then the inspiring, short-lived anomaly of the Christmas truce. The journalist, it turns out, isn't really an interviewer but is instead a young man haunted by his own bloody service as a tunnel rat in Vietnam. Hammer passes on the need to continue living as a tribute to those who have died. It's not a subtle message--a lot of Pratt's dialogue is explicit and didactic. But it is moving, particularly with the intensity of the creator's painted art throughout, which conjures the horrors of combat and the eventual prospect of redemption and release.

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