This is the way to teach history!

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	• Warren Ellis Crecy Warren Ellis, Raulo Caceres Avatar Press, 2007 - 48 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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This is the way to teach history!

Damn, this slim graphic novel was amazingly good. Okay, not amazing. After all, it was written by Warren Ellis, who probably couldn't write badly if he tried. (His novel, Crooked Little Vein, just came out and is also a good read--though utterly different from this.)

Ellis's telling of fascinating and revealing details (such as the longbowmen dipping their arrowheads in the latrine so that wounded targets would die of some 'orrible medieval excremental disease) reminds me a bit of the wonderful book, An Underground Education.

The soldier's-perspective narrative brings the ugly 14th century to life and effectively puts the reader right there in the midst of the action.

Okay, look, it's 1:00am here in Austin and I've had a couple of shots of vodka, so I'm not going to attempt to convey any details. Just BUY this book and enjoy it (in the not-always pleasant sense of "enjoy"). A guy who can write Crecy *as well as* Ultimate Galactus, Fell, The Authority, Planetary, and Orbiter (to name just a few), is not one whose latest svelte and svperb work you should miss.

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