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Very dense with specific details, this is the first of three graphic novel collections which covers the unrest in Germany's Weimer Republic between the wars. Unemployment is rampant, there is the romance of art student Marthe Muller & journalist Kurt Severing with his mounting angst over the future of Germany.Set between Sept. 1928 & May Day, 1929, it veers between the Reds (communists), the Brownshirts, (the rising Nazi party) & the republic's own police brutality and concludes with the May Day massacre of 1929. Not for the faint hearted, but worth the view.

The war poets of WW1 set to works of today's best graphic artists. Some guts--some are seen, some you'll need a barf bag for. This'll make the war come alive as nothing else.

My therapist didn't feel the author was always fair to JFK. This seems to be a more honest book that takes in his failures as well as his strengths. Some Presidents improve with time, others (Nixon for example) get worse the more you read about 'em. I've learned that I can still admire JFK, despite his faults.

This was passed down to me, sorry I don't remember who by, just that it was a member of my family. It's been so long I don't remember every thing, only that it was a very good book, graphic at times. And some people are just such---arrrgh! Recommended.

Covering the war years, when reading this you can forget the Romanovs were an elite family, Czars, and remember they were as human as the rest of us, with a father/Czar who loved his children--and chopped down a hell of a lot of trees! You come to realize several things: the Romanovs weren't sitting on tier proverbial fannies during the war; on no, Alexandra & her eldest daughters Olga & Tatiana worked as nurses in a military hospital while Anastasia & Maria visited the infirmaries to cheer up the wounded soldiers. Yes, Nicholas II was an inept military leader, but his family did not deserve to die this way--or to have acid poured over their dead bodies. It also renders all 'Anastasia' movies to be pure BS. Sorry, folks, they're gone. My god, she was only 17 when they murdered her. Reminds me exactly why we distrusted the Soviet Union all those years.

We're f---ed.

One of the longest titles for one of the slimmest books I've ever seen outside the poet's circle. Very acerbic and funny, though, unless you're part of the hip-hop or punk scenes, you won't know half the bands she's talking about. Oh well, give it a try.