Charley's War Vol. 1: Boy Soldier: The Definitive Collection: Volume 1

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Having risen from humble origins, Ziess despises his more aristocratic peers and instead believes in the modern ideas of war - 'total' war to be waged without mercy. Similarly, I’ve since read the full extent of the horrors of the British occupation of Russia in 1919. Why also can a government not do something and own it as a decision- but instead slaps a State Secrets act on it? Lonely, an early character, who is posted to Charley and Ginger’s platoon is haunted by the deaths of his original unit which he blames himself for after being the only one to survive. Anyone who has doubts that all the subjects are based on truth should refer to our sources page for further reading.

Skin is seen talking to a German soldier who is revealed to be his brother but not before the latter is fatally shot by another Briton.These paperback volumes included colour spreads from the comic for the first time in an English printing since it ran in Battle. The British publishers helped by acting as gatekeepers, blocking authors who dared to tell the truth about the war and General Haig.

The tale of this event is told in Charley’s War with the real-life perpetrator Percy Toplis replaced by Blue. Ragtime Soldier in Great War Dundee magazine, my WIP WW1 thriller novel and the 50th Anniversary of Battle Comic. I hope you’ll find the pages now gathered here about Charley’s War and other war comics of interest. Joe Colquhoun is our greatest British comic artist and – out of respect and as a tribute to him – there should be a special collection of his art, including the Second World War stories.Charley reluctantly helps Blue to avoid capture whilst in Britain and later encounters him again during the infamous Etaples Mutiny in 1917. This was because it was widely accepted at that time that World War One was mass-murder, carried out by incompetent generals and politicians under the banner of patriotism. Also at a time in the eighties when lots of the lads from the schemes were joining up, put me right off.