14-18 #4

The fourth volume of this Belgian-published World War One series brings the Western Front vividly to life, with cover art by Étienne Le Roux placing us directly inside a cramped, rain-soaked trench as a squad of soldiers — rifles and bayonets raised — press forward through smoke and mud against a darkened sky. The scene captures the claustrophobic tension of April 1915 with striking authenticity, the sandbag walls and wooden ladders framing men who look simultaneously exhausted and determined. Corbeyran and Le Roux continue their grounded, human-scale portrait of the Great War in a series that never lets the history feel distant.