Tardi is not interested in the national politics, the strategies, or the battles.
And in a final, heartbreaking coda, Tardi grimly itemizes the.
Yet he also delves deeply into the underlying causes of the war, the madness, the cynical political exploitation of patriotism.
Like Remarque, he focuses on the day to day of the grunts in the trenches, and, with icy, controlled fury and disgust, with sardonic yet deeply sympathetic narration, he brings that existence alive as no one has before or since.
Tardi is not interested in the national politics, the strategies, or the battles