My rating:

add to my books

War Stories, Vol. 2 (War Stories #2)

by Garth Ennis, David Lloyd (Illustrator), Cam Kennedy (Illustrator), Carlos Ezquerra (Illustrator), Gary Erskine (Illustrator)

3.99 · rating details · 106 ratings · 11 reviews

Garth Ennis, the award-winning writer of the PREACHER series, tells four very different accounts of World War II in WAR STORIES VOL. 1. From following the crew of a single German tank as they try to escape death at the hands of the advancing Russians; to the costs of a brutal British campaign to drive the Germans from Italy; to a platoon of Airborne infantry stumbling into...more

Paperback, 240 pages

Published March 1st 2006 by Vertigo

more details... edit details

Get a copy:

More…

There is a good chance some of your friends read this book. Sign in to see!

Friend Reviews

To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

Lists with This Book

This book is currently not featured on any Listopia lists. Add this book to your favorite list »

Community Reviews

(showing 1-30 of 143)

filter | sort: default (?) | rating details

Aug 21, 2011

Sam Quixote rated it

Garth Ennis writes another book of simply incredible War stories in this second volume featuring an RAF bomber crew flying missions over Germany, a commando unit in Africa, a group of fighters taking shelter in a bombed out hole, and an RAF fight pilot facing incredible odds over the Arctic Ocean. Three of the four stories take place during WW2 while the other is set during the war preceding WW2, the Spanish Civil War.

To say this series is Garth Ennis' best work is an understatement -...moreGarth Ennis writes another book of simply incredible War stories in this second volume featuring an RAF bomber crew flying missions over Germany, a commando unit in Africa, a group of fighters taking shelter in a bombed out hole, and an RAF fight pilot facing incredible odds over the Arctic Ocean. Three of the four stories take place during WW2 while the other is set during the war preceding WW2, the Spanish Civil War.

To say this series is Garth Ennis' best work is an understatement - this isn't just his best work but is among the best work I've ever read in comics. To even label it a comic does a disservice to the brilliance of the work on display here.

The best was the story set in the Spanish Civil War which details the actions of that conflict but also shows how that war led to WW2 as well as highlighting one of the worst atrocities in human history - Guernica. Carlos Ezquerra often produces high quality work but it's fair to say that he pulls out all the stops here, drawing his best work about his homeland. The scenes of Guernica are so moving you'll be shaken - show this story to anyone who thinks comics are for kids or that comics can't be art or literary and I guarantee they'll change their tune.

And the artwork is of high quality in each of the stories. David Lloyd, Cam Kennedy, and Gary Erskine all contribute and do justice to, the wonderful scripts about our brave ancestors who paid the ultimate price to protect our freedom.

Each story here surpasses the previous one, I've never read anything like it. Garth Ennis brings drama to the history and history to life with each story, giving humanity to the characters and poignancy and truth to their lives. War Stories has been a series of the highest art and the best work of this fantastic writer. I'm shocked to see it out of print and can only say to anyone reading this that if you're a fan of comics to seek these books out - they are essential reading and among the best comics literature you're ever likely to read. (less)

· see review

Jan 05, 2009

Jim rated it

Shelves: graphic-novels

Two of the chapters were ok, I thought. The art was average. Read it while riding on a long-distance bus trip, so perhaps I am not giving it a good shake, but overall I wasn't impressed.

· see review

Jul 25, 2009

Michael rated it

Shelves: graphic-novels

A lot more enjoyable than the first; I think Ennis realized he needs a little bit of the fantastic to make these narratives more compelling.

· see review

Jan 31, 2012

Donald rated it

Shelves: graphic-novels, read-in-2012

This second collection of WWII stories from Ennis carries on the quality of writing and art found in the first. Great, great, great.

· see review

Oct 24, 2011

Timo rated it

Shelves: comics

Not as solid as the first offering of these war stories by Ennis. But still pretty damn good.

· see review

Feb 16, 2009

Tony rated it

Better than the first volume, but still pretty dry for Ennis. Dry as in not as humorous or bloody.

· see review

Sep 13, 2010

Sancaka rated it

waaayyyy better than those commando comics..

· see review

Mar 20, 2010

Helen rated it

Shelves: graphic-novels

outstanding

· see review

Jul 18, 2008

Stephen rated it

Four more great stories from Garth Ennis. My favourites were the story about catapult-launched planes, "Archangel", and the one about a prototype SAS squad, "The Reivers". I'm sure I can't be the only one who thinks Garth Ennis should do a monthly SAS comic. They turn up in just about everything he does...

· see review

Mar 21, 2010

Stien rated it

Shelves: graphic-novel-comic-book

great characters, honest, war, critical but respectful.

· see review

Oct 24, 2009

Eric rated it

Shelves: graphic-novels

Two good, two average stories. Some interesting illustration work in several of the stories.

· see review

Feb 09, 2012

James marked it as to-read

Jan 31, 2012

Anthony Paul marked it as to-read

Shelves: owned

Jan 31, 2012

Sadaqat added it

Jan 15, 2012

Michael marked it as to-read-own

Shelves: history, planning, world-war-two, graphic-novels

Jan 05, 2012

Ian Holloway rated it

Jan 03, 2012

Bahadır Çelimli rated it

Jan 02, 2012

Greg rated it

Jan 01, 2012

Mark Johnson rated it

Dec 12, 2011

Julian Darius rated it

Dec 11, 2011

Robert W. Robinson marked it as to-read

Dec 09, 2011

Aljosha rated it

Shelves: comics

Nov 22, 2011

Mary marked it as to-read

Shelves: comics, to-read-comics

Nov 10, 2011

Joshua Strasburg rated it

Nov 06, 2011

Britton marked it as to-read

Oct 25, 2011

Dadi rated it

Shelves: graphic-novels

Oct 17, 2011

Jay rated it

Oct 17, 2011

Talabglamaro rated it

Oct 16, 2011

Scott rated it

Oct 09, 2011

Majorarcana rated it

« previous 1 2 3 4 5 next »

new topic
Discuss This Book

There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Be the first to start one »

Recommend it | Stats | Recent status updates

combine
Other Editions (2)

Genres

Sequential Art > Graphic Novels

19 users

Sequential Art > Comics

9 users

History

2 users

War

2 users

See top shelves...

Readers Also Enjoyed

About Garth Ennis

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...moreEnnis 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 characters from Troubled Souls, Dougie and Ivor, who would later get their own American comics series, Dicks, from Caliber in 1997, and several follow-ups from Avatar.

Another series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. Ennis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years.

Ennis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics's horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994, and for which he currently holds the title for most issues written. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run.

Ennis' landmark work to date is the 66-issue epic Preacher, which he co-created with artist Steve Dillon. Running from 1995 to 2000, it was a tale of a preacher with supernatural powers, searching (literally) for God who has abandoned his creation.

While Preacher was running, Ennis began a series set in the DC universe called Hitman. Despite being lower profile than Preacher, Hitman ran for 60 issues (plus specials) from 1996 to 2001, veering wildly from violent action to humour to an examination of male friendship under fire.

Other comic projects Ennis wrote during this time period include Goddess, Bloody Mary, Unknown Soldier, and Pride & Joy, all for DC/Vertigo, as well as origin stories for The Darkness for Image Comics and Shadowman for Valiant Comics.

After the end of Hitman, Ennis was lured to Marvel Comics with the promise from Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada that he could write The Punisher as long as he cared to. Instead of largely comical tone of these issues, he decided to make a much more serious series, re-launched under Marvel's MAX imprint.

In 2001 he briefly returned to UK comics to write the epic Helter Skelter for Judge Dredd.

Other comics Ennis has written include War Story (with various artists) for DC; The Pro for Image Comics; The Authority for Wildstorm; Just a Pilgrim for Black Bull Press, and 303, Chronicles of Wormwood (a six issue mini-series about the Antichrist), and a western comic book, Streets of Glory for Avatar Press.

In 2008 Ennis ended his five-year run on Punisher MAX to debut a new Marvel title, War Is Hell: The First Flight of the Phantom Eagle.

In June 2008, at Wizard World, Philadelphia, Ennis announced several new projects, including a metaseries of war comics called Battlefields from Dynamite made up of mini-series including Night Witches, Dear Billy and Tankies, another Chronicles of Wormwood mini-series and Crossed both at Avatar, a six-issue miniseries about Butcher (from The Boys) and a Punisher project reuniting him with artist Steve Dillon (subsequently specified to be a weekly mini-series entitled Punisher: War Zone, to be released concurrently with the film of the same name).

Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Ennis (less)

More about Garth Ennis...

Books by Garth Ennis

Preacher, Vol. 2: Until the End of the World

More…

Share This Book

Facebook Twitter Your website

Pin It

Trivia About War Stories, Vol. 2

No trivia or quizzes yet. Add some now »

Groups That Shelved War Stories, Vol. 2

500 Essential Graphic Novels

209 members

last activity Jan 22, 2012 09:41am

shelf: read

title link	preview: War Stories, Vol. 2
avg rating	preview: War Stories, Vol. 2 Goodreads rating: 3.99 (106 ratings)
small image	preview: click here [close]
med image	preview: click here [close]
BBCode	[url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95394.War_Stories_Vol_2?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book][img]http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171301412m/95394.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95394.War_Stories_Vol_2?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book]War Stories, Vol. 2 by Garth Ennis[/url]

War Stories, Vol. 2 (War Stories #2)

Friend Reviews

Community Reviews

Readers Also Enjoyed

Share This Book

Share This Book on Your Website