War and Conflict in Graphic Novels

Graphic novels that explore hardship, conflict and war.

Updated October 8, 2024
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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
Thi Bui
Paper Book
National bestseller ABA Indies Introduce Winter / Spring 2017 Selection Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2017 Selection An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam, from debut author Thi Bui. ...
The Complete Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Paper Book
Here, in one volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up as a girl in Iran during the revolution has for twenty years been a classroom staple, a feminist manifesto, and one of the most popular and widely known graphic novels of all time. <...
The Great War July 1, 1916 : the first day of the Battle of the Somme : an illustrated panorama
Sacco, Joe
Paper Book
Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed and another 40,000 were wounded that first day, and there were more than one million casualties by the time the offensive halted. In The Great War...
The Harlem Hellfighters
Brooks, Max.
Paper Book
Chronicles the little-known story of the 369th Infantry Regiment the first African-American regiment mustered to fight in World War One which became one of the most successful and least celebrated regiments of the war
Kent State four dead in Ohio
Backderf, Derf
Paper Book
From bestselling author Derf Backderf comes the untold story of the Kent State shootings-timed for the 50th anniversary On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, 4 students were...
Palestine
Sacco, Joe.
Paper Book
Joe Sacco's breakthrough work of graphic journalism -- a now-established genre almost single handedly invented by Sacco -- won the American Book Award upon its initial release in 1996, and has remained a perennial, essential work for understanding the Palestinian Israeli conflict in the Middle East....
Such a lovely little war Saigon, 1961-63
Truong, Marcelino
Paper Book
This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietnam war as seen by a young boy named Marco, the son of a Vietnamese diplomat and his French wife. Visually powerful and emotionally potent, Such A Lovely Little War is both a large-scale and intimate...
They called us enemy
Takei, George
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller! A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale...
Unaccompanied stories of brave teenagers seeking asylum
White, Tracy
Paper Book
One of the 2024 Best Graphic Novels for Teens by the American Library Association Life at home is so unbearable that these kids will risk their lives and face colossal challenges to escape to the United States and find safety.  This book tells the...

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