The second volume of Stalag IIB begins when René Tardi finally gets a taste of freedom, as prisoners and German officers alike are forced to evacuate the POW camp he has languished in for the past fou
In the first of two graphic novel volumes, Jacques Tardi — with four decades of cartooning and almost two dozen graphic novels behind him — tells Rene Tardi's story, masterfully recreating historical
World War I, that awful, gaping wound in the history of Europe, has longbeen an obsession of Jacques Tardi's. (His very first--rejected--comics storydealt with the subject, as does his most recent wo