Adieu Brindavoine suivi de La Fleur au fusil #[nn]

Tardi's cover says everything with brutal economy: a weary, bespectacled French *poilu* — tears streaking his face, rifle clutched in trembling hands — stands before a tricolor flag soaked in cascading blood, barbed wire coiling ominously at its base. The image distills the human cost of the Great War into a single unflinching image that feels neither patriotic nor propagandistic, just searingly honest. Published by Casterman in 1979, this volume collects two of Tardi's most personal WWI stories and announces from its very cover that sentiment and slaughter will share the same frame.