Two Generals
10 best books like Two Generals (Scott Chantler): The Boxer: The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam: An Illustrated Memoir, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb, Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, It Was the War of the Trenches, The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel, George Sprott, 1894-1975, Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope, The Fatal Bullet: The Assassination of James A. Garfield
| Author | Reinhard Kleist |
| ISBN | 1906838771 |
Poland, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Harry Haft is sent to Auschwitz. When he is forced to fight against other inmates for the amusement of the SS officers, Haft shows extraordinary strength and courage, and a determination to survive. As the Soviet Army advances in April 1945, he makes a daring escape from...
| Author | Ann Marie Fleming |
| ISBN | 1594482640 |
A full-color graphic memoir inspired by the award-winning documentary-and the life and mystery of China's greatest magician.
Who was Long Tack Sam?
He was born in 1885. He ran away from Shangdung Province to join the circus. He was an acrobat. A magician. A comic. An impresario. A...
| Author | Shigeru Mizuki |
| ISBN | 1770460411 |
A landmark publishing event of one of Japan's most famous cartoonists
Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous working cartoonists in Japan today–a true living legend. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to be translated into English...
| Author | Jonathan Fetter-Vorm |
| ISBN | 0809094681 |
Trinity, the debut graphic book by the gifted illustrator Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts in vivid detail the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb. This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of invention from the laboratories of nineteenth-century...
| Author | Chester Brown |
| ISBN | 1894937899 |
"It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel." -Time
Chester Brown reinvents the comic-book medium to create the critically acclaimed historical biography Louis Riel, winning the Harvey Awards for best writing and best graphic novel for...
| Author | Jacques Tardi |
| ISBN | 1606993534 |
World War I, that awful, gaping wound in the history of Europe, has long been an obsession of Jacques Tardi’s. (His very first—rejected—comics story dealt with the subject, as does his most recent work, the two-volume Putain de Guerre.) But It Was the War of the Trenches is Tardi’s defining,...
| Author | Patti Laboucane-Benson |
| ISBN | 1770899375 |
In this important graphic novel, two Aboriginal brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives.
Pete, a young Aboriginal man wrapped up in gang violence, lives...
First serialized in The New York Times Magazine “Funny Pages”
The celebrated cartoonist and New Yorker illustrator Seth weaves the fictional tale of George Sprott, the host of a long-running television program. The events forming the patchwork of George’s life are pieced together...
| Author | Emmanuel Guibert |
| ISBN | 1596430966 |
"When I was eighteen, Uncle Sam told me he'd like me to put on a uniform and go off to fight a guy by the name of Adolf. So I did."
When Alan Cope joined the army and went off to fight in World War II, he had no idea what he was getting into. This graphic memoir is the story of his life during wartime, a story...
| Author | Rick Geary |
| ISBN | 1561632287 |
Geary (The Borden Tragedy, Jack The Ripper) explores the first assassination of one of our presidents in the hands of an obsessive-compulsive stalker, a deluded loser who thought his action would bring him national glory. In this typically carefully researched and constructed story, Geary parallels...
| Author | Carla Jablonski |
| ISBN | 1596432926 |
When Nazis invade, what can kids do to fight them? World War II has taken its toll on the French countryside. German soldiers patrol the towns, searching for any challenge to their rule. The Tessier siblings, Paul, Marie, and Sophie, keep their noses clean and their faces blank as the French military...
| Author | Jim Ottaviani |
| ISBN | 0966010639 |
So, you've always wanted to learn how to build an atomic bomb? You're in luck: Jim Ottaviani is not only a comics writer...he also has a master's degree in nuclear engineering! But even though it's not a complete do-it-yourself manual (assembly required, and plutonium is definitely not included),...
| Author | Samuel R. Delany |
| ISBN | 1890451029 |
I read the 500-plus page "The Mad Man" in grad school & wholly LOATHED it. It was extremely antiart, it was too exotic/disgusting for my taste. It was repetitive, in a way only a sadist wannabe (A.K.A. Marquis de Sade imitator) could be. It was the same act repeated ad nauseum--I cannot believe I survived...
| Author | Eric Heuvel |
| ISBN | 0374322716 |
While searching his grandmother’s attic for likely items to sell at a yard sale, Jeroen finds a photo album that brings back hard memories for his grandmother, Helena. Helena tells Jeroen for the first time about her experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World...
| Author | Noah Van Sciver |
| ISBN | 1606996193 |
The debut graphic novel from Noah Van Sciver follows the twentysomething Abraham Lincoln as he loses everything, long before becoming our most beloved president. Lincoln is a rising Whig in the state's legislature as he arrives in Springfield, IL to practice law. With all of his possessions under...
| Author | Michel Rabagliati |
| ISBN | 1897299281 |
This fourth installment in Michel Rabagliati's semiautobiographical series finds Paul settling comfortably into adult life, occasional twinges of anxiety aside. His graphic design business has taken off, his partner, Lucie, is pregnant, it's mid-July and time to leave behind the city to go fishing....
| Author | Paul Peterson |
| ISBN | 0986488410 |
A collaborative, multi-media project about attempted suicide, focused on interviewers with for suicide attempt survivors. This version of it features the comics illustration of John Porcellino. Spare, respectful, subdued, honest, sections are separated by scenes of outdoors with increasing...
| Author | David Alexander Robertson |
| ISBN | 9781553793 |
A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, his friend's grandmother, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, at the age of 8, everything changed. Betsy was taken away to a residential...
