As the German Army smashes deep into the Soviet Union and the defenders of the Motherland retreat in disarray, a new squadron arrives at a Russian forward airbase. Like all night bomber units, they will risk fiery death flying obsolete biplanes against the invader–but unlike the rest, these pilots and navigators are women. In the… Read more

This story is based on true events of the life of Francisco Boix, a prisoner of war interned at Mauthausen. Boix is a Spaniard and a newspaper photographer and communist who is captured in France and sent to several camps before ending up at Mauthausen. For a while, Francisco works as a translator, tasked with… Read more

Tim Smyth provides ideas for the classroom. A powerful book! The Photographer of Mauthausen is a dramatic retelling of true events in the life of Francisco Boix, a Spanish press photographer and communist who fled to France at the beginning of World War II. But there, he found himself handed over by the French to… Read more

GREAT NAVAL BATTLES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. In the history of civilizations, sea power has always played a preponderant role. This symbol of a nation’s scientific and military genius has very often been the deciding factor during major conflicts, putting the names of several clashes down into legend. With this collection, Jean-Yves Delitte and Giuseppe… Read more

A man tells a tough story in ‘The Photographer of Mathausen’. War is always a tough topic to discuss. In this country’s past, lots of blood has been shed in war time. There are lots of stories during these times that have still not been told. One such story comes to life in The Photographer… Read more

Two graphic novels from two different publishers, both out on the 17th of February, 2021 take on very different political figures of American history, Alexander Hamilton and Teddy Roosevelt. While rather more taciturn Teddy from Dead Reckoning, a new graphic novel by Laurence Luckinbill and Eryck Tait about President Roosevelt. Hamilton and Teddy are published… Read more

No discussion of Irish comics can go too long without mentioning Garth Ennis, unquestionably the most high-profile Irish creator of the past quarter century. Having made his name writing for 2000AD, the Belfast man etched himself into the high pantheon of comics writers by creating crossover behemoth Preacher and, ten years later, The Boys –… Read more

I never had much interest in war narratives until I came across Tanya the Evil. It’s a completely fictional isekai, but its war nerd creator did such a wonderful job dramatizing the varied aspects of military conflict that it completely hooked me. Since then, I’ve checked off Tom Hanks’s Greyhound and the Ken Burns documentary… Read more

In the history of civilizations, sea power has always played a preponderant role. This symbol of a nation’s scientific and military genius has very often been the deciding factor during major conflicts, putting the names of several clashes down into legend. With this collection, Jean-Yves Delitte and Giuseppe Baiguera plunge into the heart of three… Read more

This is another stunning volume from Dead Reckoning. Short of film, I don’t think any format can make these three epic war time stories come alive again. These battles which may have been one of four options on your high school history class explode off of the page and create the attention that the teaching… Read more