14-18 #5

The fifth volume of Corbeyran and Le Roux's acclaimed World War I series brings readers to February 1916, a brutal winter on the Western Front. Le Roux's cover depicts a group of weary soldiers in heavy grey coats huddled together in a muddy encampment, some crouched around a cooking pot while others stand watch amid tents and military equipment — a quietly powerful image of frontline life between the fighting. It's a sombre, human portrait of the war's grinding everyday reality, rendered with the careful detail that makes this series such a compelling chronicle of the Great War.