Cinebook Recounts: Battle of Britain

Cinebook Recounts: Battle of Britain, by F. Bergese & B. Asso, Cinebook

THIS IS a graphic novel wherein European creators relate how that old British spirit kept the Nazis at bay during World War II.

It’s as if during the early 90s when Fleetway were overhauling their line of comics and tried to make them more contemporary and relevant D.C. Thomson did so too, but did it right, and created an alternative Earth version of their popular Commando title.

Both The Battle of Britain (1940) and The Bombing of Germany (1943 – 1945) are related in this collection and what we get are dramatised documentary style comic book stories of those historical events. There’s an awful lot of detail gone into presenting the research as part of the ongoing story in an easygoing but informative narrative caption vein – not all of it is completely accurate, but I guess we must accept that this is also being presented as a work of fiction so some licence has been used, although personalities and their characterisations are not in depth, the way they are in Commando .

While I don’t think this is a book I’ll dip into soon again myself, it is a book I’ll recommend for kids to read so they can appreciate some of what went on during World War II without getting bored reading rigid text books.

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