Nov 20: Joe Sacco at Politics and Prose bookstore

 

Joe Sacco - The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme ♦

• Non Fiction

Start: Nov 20, 2013, 7 p.m.

End: Nov 20, 2013, 8 p.m.

Sacco's extraordinary graphic work captures the first days of the infamous Battle of the Somme in a twenty-four page foldout. This panorama depicts scenes of General Haig and the trenches, but most vividly conveys the mass horror of thousands of troops marching out—and thousands being cut down.

Beer and wine will be available.

The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme (Hardcover)

By Joe Sacco

$35.00

ISBN-13: 9780393088809
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 11/2013