Vietnam War
First sentence
With World War II over, the French hoped and expected to return to their former colonies in French Indochina, pick up the pieces, and carry on as before...
Description
The best Kobayashi. A very realistic work that delves into the horror of the Vietnam War through short stories, in which the protagonists face the atrocities of a war with that disenchantment and cynicism that we have already seen in the great films of the genre, such as Apocalypse Now or Platoon. Kobayashi intersperses the stories with documentation about the Vietnam War, including all kinds of military maps, graphics with the structure of the US Army or its special forces, combat training schemes, the chronology of the war and a glossary of terms and acronyms. This structure allows us to approach the Vietnam conflict from a historical perspective and, at the same time, feel all the horror of war. A genius of the creator of Cat Shit One.