Six Days: The Incredible Story of D-Day's Lost Chapter
June 1944. World War II. D-Day. 182 members of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division parachute into the French countryside--a full eighteen miles southeast of their intended target. Six Days: The Incredible Story of D-Day's Lost Chapter is an original graphic novel from DC Vertigo is the true story of a World War II battle that took place in the small village of Graignes, France for six days and the people that survived to tell the tale.
In the worst mis-drop of the D-Day campaign, a group of soldiers are rattled to find themselves even deeper behind enemy lines than anyone had intended. Miraculously, the citizens of Graignes vote to feed and shelter the soldiers, knowing that the decision would bring them terrible punishment if their efforts were discovered by the Germans. That day of reckoning comes faster than anyone could expect.
As a small German militia passes through, the world's war comes to their remote town in the countryside and for the the next six days, the small band of American paratroopers and French citizens must fight for their lives to hold back 2,000 enemy combatants.
Six Days: The Incredible Story of D-Day's Lost Chapter is a true story of survival, loyalty, the brutality of war and a triumph of the human spirit so rarely brought to the comics form. Writers Kevin Maurer (#1 New York Times bestseller No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden) and Robert Venditti (Green Lantern)--whose uncle fought in the Battle of Graignes and is a key character in the tale--completed exhaustive archival research in preparation this unbelievable untold story from World War II.
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It's fine nothing more. It's basically exactly what one expects from a regular comic book you pick out randomly from a shelf. Nothing great yet coherent enough. The writer wants to tell this grand tale of an American unit that dropped down in France 15 miles from the intended location. They are alone in a small town of 200 houses in a swamp area. Germans with heavy machinery run them down and then execute all the wounded men who surrender to the Germans. Then burn down the town and kill civilians.
Unfortunately you don't know how many soldiers there are. How big the town is. How many weapons they have. What the plan is. It's all quite vague. It's definitely an important story yet we spend most the time on seeing some young women talk about their sick father, soldiers eating, some fighting we don't quite understand as it's crudely drawn. Is this important? If so then why not show it more clearly? Instead we have several pages just with a sermon in church. In a TV show this would be a needed slow down in pace and a bit slice of life seeing a young woman flirt with a soldier. Here it's utterly pointless as we don't even see the proper military work. We basically just know they died somehow.
It's not really worth it over just any WW2 movie or a more detailed comic book.
Unfortunately you don't know how many soldiers there are. How big the town is. How many weapons they have. What the plan is. It's all quite vague. It's definitely an important story yet we spend most the time on seeing some young women talk about their sick father, soldiers eating, some fighting we don't quite understand as it's crudely drawn. Is this important? If so then why not show it more clearly? Instead we have several pages just with a sermon in church. In a TV show this would be a needed slow down in pace and a bit slice of life seeing a young woman flirt with a soldier. Here it's utterly pointless as we don't even see the proper military work. We basically just know they died somehow.
It's not really worth it over just any WW2 movie or a more detailed comic book.
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