FREE CHARLEYS WAR: UNDERGROUND AND OVER THE TOP V. 6 PDF Pat Mills,Joe Colquhoun | 112 pages | 19 Jan 2010 | Titan Books Ltd | 9781845767976 | English | London, United Kingdom Charley's War: Return to the Front (Charley's War): : Mills, Pat: Books When you buy a book, we donate a book. Sign in. Charley's War Vol. Jan 19, ISBN Add to Cart. Also available from:. Hardcover —. Also by Pat Mills. Product Details. Inspired by Your Browsing Charleys War: Underground and Over the Top v. 6. Hot Damn. Ryan Ferrier. Captain Atom Vol. Blackout Volume 1: Into the Dark. Frank J. Elfen Lied Omnibus Volume 4. Lynn Okamoto. Fire Force Atsushi Ohkubo. Ragna Crimson Daiki Kobayashi. Lucifer Vol. Dan Watters. Gary Carlson. Inuyashiki 8. The Seven Deadly Sins Nakaba Suzuki. Charleys War: Underground and Over the Top v. 6 Hat C. Brandon Perry. Hiro Mashima. Invisible Kingdom Volume 2. Willow Wilson. Robotech Vol. Noragami: Stray Stories 1. Jody Houser and James Peaty. Halo: Initiation. Gantz Volume 8. 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Charley joins the British Army during World War I at the age of 16 having lied about his age and told the recruiting officers that he was 18; they conveniently overlook the fact that Charley gives his date of birth on his application form asand is Charleys War: Underground and Over the Top v. 6 thrust into the Battle of the Somme. The strip follows Charley's life in the trenches and his experiences during the war. Colquhoun put a meticulous level of research into the already well-researched scripts which Mills provided. The strip rarely flinched from providing an extremely frank portrayal of the horrors of war, so much so that in some later reprintings some of the artwork was censored. Mills added a political slant in the strip not seen in British war comics and avoided the standard heroics common in war comics generally. In addition to depicting Charley's own experiences of the war, the comic took the risk of going off on several tangents, temporarily shifting the focus to characters in different locations and time periods. The first and most successful tangent was the story of 'Blue', a British soldier in the French Foreign Legion who fought with them at Verdun in before deserting and making his way back to England where he meets Charley. The final and least successful tangent was the story of Charley's cousin Jack Bourne, a sailor in the Royal Navy and the story of his ship HMS Kent and its participation in the Battle of the Falklands in Unlike the previous diversions, this new change of setting received poor feedback from readers and the editor of Battle ordered Mills to return the storyline to Charley in the trenches, much to Mills' disappointment who had originally planned to continue Jack's story on into the Battle of Jutland in The Charleys War: Underground and Over the Top v. 6 followed Charley through to the end of the war and through into the invasion of Russia in However, in JanuaryMills quit the strip before being able to complete the story he intended the story to end inwith Charley on the dole as Hitler is made Chancellor of Germany due to a dispute over his research budget. Mills was replaced by Scott Goodall and the story was moved to the Second World War and became a more conventional war adventure strip. However, the series ended in the early part of the Second World War after Charley is one of the lucky ones successfully evacuated from Dunkirk along with his sonrealising he is too old for soldiering any more. The story ends with him wondering how he came to become a soldier in the first place, leading into a re-run of the strip within Battle Picture Weekly until that comic folded. In reality, the ending of Charley's War was down to the poor health of Joe Colquhounwhich had already caused the strip to be delayed several weeks. Out of respect for Joe, there was no question of getting another artist to take over production, and it was felt best to simply draw it to a close. InBattle was folded into Eaglewhich also began reprinting Charley's Warwhich became one of the mainstays of the title. Bythe storyline had reached and Charley's time Charleys War: Underground and Over the Top v. 6 a stretcher bearer, but with the comic about to be revamped and most of the strips about to be dropped, the title skipped ahead to the conclusion of the First World War and the end of Charley's conflict with Captain Snell in order to give it some conclusion. The whole series was collected in ten graphic novels by Titan Books between and Rebellion 's Treasury of British Comics imprint began a new series of graphic novels in Charley Bourne - The central character and hero of the series. A working-class London lad from a close-knit family, he enlists in the British Army inage sixteen and arrives in the trenches on the Western Front shortly before the start of the Somme Campaign. Naive and not too bright, Bourne nonetheless gets much hard-earned worldly wisdom as he experiences and survives the horrors of the Great War for the next three years and beyond. Exceptionally brave, loyal to his comrades and quick to defend those who are suffering bullying or injustice, Bourne makes friends and enemies in equal numbers. His fundamental decency and conscientious sense of duty are sometimes at odds with his anger at the many injustices of military life and his growing disillusionment over the conduct of the war. Burly, loud, fond of a drink and seemingly indestructable, Bill's roaring voice and courage help Charley and his fellows out of trouble time and time again. Ginger Jones - Charley's best pal on the Somme in Never a natural-born soldier and always the first to complain, Ginger makes up for his lack of enthusiasm with his sense of humour and cunning. Despite himself, he survives numerous tight-spots alongside Charley in Lieutenant Thomas - Charley's first platoon commander and easily Charleys War: Underground and Over the Top v. 6 best officer he serves under during the war. Public-schooled but enlightened, brave but never blood- thirsty, Thomas is a decent man who represents the best of his class. Lieutenant later Captain D'Arcy Snell - A vicious, pompous and war-loving officer, Snell treats the war as a marvellous sport and his men as expendable examples of the lower classes who must be kept in their place. Snell becomes Charley's platoon commander after the death of Thomas and he remains Charley's ultimate nemesis. Lonely - A traumatised veteran who was the sole survivor of his platoon when it was wiped out in due to a recklessly cruel act by Lt Snell. Wracked by guilt, he confides in Charley the truth of what happened. Blue - A British deserter from the French Foreign Legion'Blue' fled to England after surviving the hellish Battle of Verdun in in which most of his fellow Legionaries were slaughtered. Charley reluctantly helps Blue to avoid capture whilst in Britain and later encounters him again during the infamous Etaples Mutiny in Despite his misgivings over Blue's desertion, Charley Charleys War: Underground and Over the Top v. 6 help but feel a kinship with him due to their common resentment of the military hierarchy and Charley's realisation that, with less fortunate circumstances, he Charleys War: Underground and Over the Top v. 6 have easily ended up the same way. Weeper Watkins - Injured by poison gas that left his tear-ducts constantly running, Weeper is a cheeky rebel who hates the war and despises the army and he suffers badly for his insubordination. He eventually deserts but is recaptured in Ernie Stubbs - A short soldier who is one of the officers' servants during Charley's time as Snell's batman. He once served in the Bantams until his regiments was disbanded because of heavy casualties. Captured during a raid on the trench, he is killed by Adolf Hitler with a grenade when he tries to escape. Charley steps in to help, leading to a fight in which Grogan is accidentally killed. The Scholar soon turns Charleys War: Underground and Over the Top v. 6 to be a two-faced cunning snob who wrangles a transfer to officer training and he later returns as the platoon-commander who thinly conceals his fear behind his pomposity and petty resentment of Charley. Earwig - A one-time crony of Grogan's and the regiment's barber. He holds a grudge against Charley for his role in Grogan's death and they often clash. He dies at the Third Battle of Ypres, after taking shelter in a shell hole full of mustard gas. Budgie - A conscientious objector who Charleys War: Underground and Over the Top v. 6 been forced into the army through torture and intimidation and works as a miner alongside Charley in employed to lay explosive mines beneath the German lines.