Berlijn #2

Set against the rubble-strewn ruins of postwar Berlin, this second volume of Marvano's Berlijn 1948 series places a young boy center stage, arms outstretched in wonder as a propeller aircraft cuts across a bright blue sky overhead. A warning sign reading "Gefahr! Blindgänger" — danger, unexploded ordnance — grounds the scene in the tense, precarious reality of a divided city still scarred by war. With the Soviet hammer-and-sickle looming in the title lettering, Reinhard de Vos promises a story steeped in the charged atmosphere of the Berlin Airlift era.