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

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He was a brilliantly crafted character that worked because he was based on a Lost Generation of real, courageous, straight-forward, working-class heroes’, who tragically never returned to their homes. I read that the cement for the German pillboxes originally came from Britain via neutral Holland, but couldn’t confirm it, so I left it out. Later I found the evidence. Another of Mill’s play on words was Charley’s surname ‘a proper Charley born”(geddit?). All his family are here – his Mum, who worked in a munitions factory not far from their home in Silvertown in the east end of London, his Dad who was a special Policeman, his sister Dolly (who married Oliver), and troublesome younger brother Wilf.

The toy-inspired series Action Force didn’t even make the cover of the final issue of Battle Acton Force in which they appeared, but “Charley’s War” didGarth Ennis calls Charley’s War his favorite comic, which was reason enough for me to seek it out. This story was published in the British weekly Battle from 1979-1986. It follows sixteen-year-old Charley Bourne who enlists in the British Army in 1916, when he arrives at the Western Front and continues to fight through the end of the War. This book contains the first third of the comic* (covering June 1916-February 1917), and it is excellent. Old Bill: Bourne – get your kit on and get on the bridge as part of the armed guard to make sure this rabble don’t break out and enter the town” The narratives of the early comics changed in the 1970s when Mills became a leading light in the field – particularly when he wrote Charley’s War with artist Joe Colquhoun. Charley’s War was set in the first world war, and turned its unflinching gaze not on glory, but the horror of conflict. I can’t see Captain Snell or those officers who produced the Wipers Times enjoying ragtime, can you? It’s far too cool. Yet Charley Bourne and his mates proudly called themselves the Ragtime Infantry. The Great Depression and Charley is on the dole. News arrives that Adolf Hitler has seized power in Germany. At this point, writer Pat Mills ceased work on the comic and was replaced by Scott Goodall.

If Captain Snell was the personification of the upper classes, then Oliver was the embodiment of the greed and profiteering during the War.

Charley's War: Volume 2

A one-time crony of Grogan's and the regiment's barber. He holds a grudge against Charley for his role in Grogan's death and they often clash. He dies at the Third Battle of Ypres, after taking shelter in a shell hole full of mustard gas. Johnson, Robert (2012). The Afghan Way of War: How and Why They Fight. New York: Oxford University Press. p.307. ISBN 978-0-19-979856-8.

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