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July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme
W. W. Norton
November 2013
On Sale: November 4, 2013
54 pages
ISBN: 0393088804
EAN: 9780393088809
Hardcover
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Historical | Graphic Novel
From “the heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman”
(Economist) comes a monumental, wordless depiction
of the most infamous day of World War
I. Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the
Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World
War. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed and another
40,000 were wounded that first day, and there were more than
one million casualties by the time the offensive halted. In
The Great War, acclaimed cartoon journalist Joe
Sacco depicts the events of that day in an extraordinary,
24-foot- long panorama: from General Douglas Haig and the
massive artillery positions behind the trench lines to the
legions of soldiers going “over the top” and getting cut
down in no-man’s-land, to the tens of thousands of wounded
soldiers retreating and the dead being buried en masse.
Printed on fine accordion-fold paper and packaged in a
deluxe slipcase with a 16-page booklet, The Great
War is a landmark in Sacco’s illustrious career and
allows us to see the War to End All Wars as we’ve never seen
it before.
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