14-18 #9

The ninth volume of Corbeyran and Le Roux's acclaimed World War One series brings readers to July 1918 with "Op aarde zoals in de hemel" — a title that translates as "On Earth as it is in Heaven." Le Roux's cover artwork sets a somber, vivid tone: a group of weary Allied soldiers huddles in the foreground amid the wounded and fallen, while a standing soldier surveys the chaos, military vehicles and troops stretch across a muddy landscape behind them, and a sky filled with biplanes engaged in aerial combat looms overhead. It's a striking tableau that captures the exhausting convergence of ground war and air war in the war's final months.