In July, acclaimed comics artists will publish a powerful anthology of stories to combat Michael Gove’s ‘jingoistic’ interpretation of WW1. To End All Wars, which includes 27 short stories based on real incidents, many told from a soldier’s perspective, is intended as a corrective to the Education Secretary’s insistence that the conflict should be taught as a “just war” fought to halt German expansionism.
The architects of the First World War are put on trial in the Hague and deserting soldiers celebrated in a graphic novel produced by Britain’s leading comic artists designed to undermine “jingoistic” commemorations of the conflict’s centenary.
We’ll make sure copies are available in Bristol when it is published
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