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Les Meilleurs Ennemis. Une Histoire Des Relations Entre Les Etats-Unis Et Le Moyen-Orient. Première Partie 1783/1953 (2011)

by Jean-Pierre Filiu(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

2754800808 (ISBN13: 9782754800808)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Futuropolis

series

Les meilleurs ennemis. Une histoire des relations entre les Etats-Unis et le Moyen-Orient.

review 1: Re-reading this book due to it having been published in Swedish, wonder over all wonders! This is the first volume in a trilogy that will describe the history of the relationship between the US and the Middle East, in comics form. And despite it's didactic aim it's riveting reading, grabbing hold of you from the start and not letting go until the end, when you instantly grab around for the next volume. Oh if only the text books in school had been this engaging!This is an example of just how good information comics can be. I have read and reviewed a lot of information comics these last few months, all of them from the EU, and they have all been sub par. Even so, I have looked long and hard for quality and have actually given a few of them as much as three stars. Well, on a... more normal scale, that would mean that I should give this book fifty stars and not five. It's that good. Filiu delivers a concise script that works really well in comics form. Not too much text and a good selection of examples to show the development through the almost 200 years that are covered in this first volume. But it's the art of David B. that lifts this from the depths that information comics can sink to, and elevates it to an artform. His distinct black and white art and penchant for visual allegories suits the story perfectly, often adding information and possible interpretations to specifik moments in history. I can go on lauding this book with superlatives, but I must also admit that this has to be THE graphic novel aimed at yours truly. It covers a subject that I am very interested in, it is written by one of the experts on this subject, and it is beautifully rendered by one of my very favourite, now living comics artists. For me, it can't get much better than this.
review 2: As I knew pretty much nothing of this part of American history I found the book very informative. I'm sure there must be more minute details that weren't covered, but it was very successful in introducing me to the subject at hand.I probably would have rated this at only a 3, but the art is inventive and very enjoyable; it's not as cut and dry as I would have assumed a historical comic's illustrations to be. less

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