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Battlefields, Volume 1: Night Witches (Battlefields #1)
Late summer, 1942. As the German army smashes deep into Soviet Russia and the defenders of the Motherland retreat in disarray, a new bomber squadron arrives at a Russian forward airbase. Its crews will fly flimsy wooden biplanes on lethal night missions over German lines, risking fiery death as they fling themselves against the invader - but for these pilots, the consequen...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
February 1st 2009
by Dynamite Entertainment
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I have just finished part one of this volume, and already I am prepared to give it five stars. Any book that can jolt you emotionally with a scene has been skilfully executed in my opinion.
I bought this from Amazon on a whim after seeing an insignificant Tumblr post the piqued my interest. Until then, I had heard and knew nothing about Russia's WWII Night Witches. After reading this I demand to know why.
Ennis has chosen an atypical war story and has, thankfully, told it in an atypical fashion...more
I bought this from Amazon on a whim after seeing an insignificant Tumblr post the piqued my interest. Until then, I had heard and knew nothing about Russia's WWII Night Witches. After reading this I demand to know why.
Ennis has chosen an atypical war story and has, thankfully, told it in an atypical fashion...more
Garth Ennisin käsikirjoittama ja Russ Braunin kuvittama "Battlefields vol. 1 : The Night Witches" (Dynamite, 2009) on Stalingradin taistelun tietämille sijoittuva ilmasotasarjakuva Neuvostoliiton ilmavoimissa palvelevasta, vanhanaikaista kaksitasopommittajaa lentävästä naisluutnantista ja saksalaisesta mosurista, joiden kohtalot nivoutuvat toisiinsa itärintaman ratkaisutaisteluiden tiimellyksessä.
Ennisille sodankäynti on helvettiä, jossa ei ole sijaa Korkeajännityksistä tutuile sankaritarinoille...more
Ennisille sodankäynti on helvettiä, jossa ei ole sijaa Korkeajännityksistä tutuile sankaritarinoille...more
This is a tragic, heroic story highlighting the Russian women pilots of the second world war....
Like the best war stories of Garth Ennis they feel much more real,you feel more for the characters than in the sentimental,melodrama that is war movies in Hollywood,Europe.
Like the best war stories of Garth Ennis they feel much more real,you feel more for the characters than in the sentimental,melodrama that is war movies in Hollywood,Europe.
Garth Ennis World War II stories tends to be very emotional and usually all parties or one of them at least meets very bloody end, mostly because of compassion placed on the wrong person. Life is a bitch in Garth Ennis stories.
The idea of the equality added to the Red army more soldiers, then German could scramble. The amazing stories of Night Witches are mostly forgotten. Female pilots in old planes without parachutes were bombing German lines. Both parties had heavy casualties. Young German s...more
The idea of the equality added to the Red army more soldiers, then German could scramble. The amazing stories of Night Witches are mostly forgotten. Female pilots in old planes without parachutes were bombing German lines. Both parties had heavy casualties. Young German s...more
I just like comic books, I think.
This is a tragic, heroic little vignette highlighting the Russian women pilots of the second world war... a little-known piece of history which for some reason has been kind of foregrounded for me lately (there was a review of a biography of one of these women in my last 99s newsletter, and I want to read it very much; there was also a story on BBC Radio 4 a few days ago). Garth Ennis wrote my absolutely favorite episodes of Hellblazer in the early 90s (the Dange...more
This is a tragic, heroic little vignette highlighting the Russian women pilots of the second world war... a little-known piece of history which for some reason has been kind of foregrounded for me lately (there was a review of a biography of one of these women in my last 99s newsletter, and I want to read it very much; there was also a story on BBC Radio 4 a few days ago). Garth Ennis wrote my absolutely favorite episodes of Hellblazer in the early 90s (the Dange...more
This was a very good graphic novel about women pilots of the Red Air Force during the Second World War.The book focused on a pilot and a German soldier, showing events from their two perspectives. As with much of Garth Ennis's work, there a good deal of graphic violence, but this was, after all, the Eastern front circa 1942. The art by Russ Braun was crisp and evocative and the color (Tony Avina) was nicely done.
yep. i got into a conversation with some buddies about WWII. i said something about the werewolf women of the SS. ben handed me this to read. not werewolf women, but pretty freakin fun, DARK, bloody, no real winners in this. then again, is ennis known for happy endings?
A Garth Ennis World War II story, which is generally pretty good. This story focuses both on a young German soldier on the Eastern front and a female pilot in the Russian Air Force. Both stories are good, but neither was developed enough to get me really invested in any of the characters.
i've been buying the battlefields issues as they come out. so nice to see garth return to world war II.
hmmm. maybe "nice" isn't the best word.
hmmm. maybe "nice" isn't the best word.
One billion word review here:
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As usual, Ennis is at his best when writing world war 2 stories!
Not so typical war adventure. More like brutal and honest war story.
A largely unknown portion of WWII. A nice read.
A fantastic WWII story told from the perspective of a group of women known as the Night Witches. They were true heroes and I was surprised that I didn't know anything about them before reading this book. A story that needs to be told and it is a bonus that Garth Ennis does it so well.
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Ennis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls. Appearing in the short-lived but critically-acclaimed British anthology Crisis and illustrated by McCrea, it told the story of a young, apolitical Protestant man caught up by fate in the violence of the Irish 'Troubles'. It spawned a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, a broad Belfast-based comedy featuring two supporting ch...more
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