Jean-Corentin Carré, l'enfant soldat #1

Set against the rain-soaked devastation of the Western Front, this opening volume from Editions Paquet's Mémoire 1914–1918 series puts a young French soldier front and center — rifle in hand, pushing forward through the mud and ruin of no man's land with a determination that belies his youth. The cover immediately conveys the human cost and grim reality of the Great War through the determined face of Jean-Corentin Carré himself, a boy thrust into a soldier's world. It's a compelling, sobering introduction to what promises to be a deeply personal story drawn from the trenches of 1914–1918.