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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 βthe heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelmanβ (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 βover the topβ and getting cut down in no-manβs-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 Saccoβs illustrious career and allows us to see the War to End All Wars as weβve never seen it before.
 Media BuzzAll Things Considered - November 10, 2013
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