Dougie's War: A Soldier's Story - Softcover

Rodge Glass

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954402480 ISBN 13: 9780954402488

Publisher: Freight Design, 2010

Synopsis

Dougie Campbell is a Scottish soldier, a veteran of Afghanistan returning home to the south side of Glasgow. He has just left the British Army but cannot forget his experiences of combat. A battle rages inside him as he struggles to adjust to civilian life, trying to live with his memories and understand his need for recognition. As the pressure builds, those closest to Dougie try to intervene to help but fail to anticipate the shocking path he has chosen. Dougies War is a new graphic novel by acclaimed novelist and biographer Rodge Glass and artist Dave Turbitt about the legacy of the war in the Middle East and the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome on returning veterans. A fictional story, but based on meticulously researched real life experiences of Scottish veterans, Dougies War shows that the fight doesn t end when men and women leave military service. Dougie s War is inspired by the classic and highly influential 80s World War 1 comic strip Charleys War, the first to explore the reality of war and what was then called shell shock. Key extracts from Charleys War are included here, together with moving interviews with veterans of conflicts in the Falklands, former Yugoslavia, the first Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan

About this title

Product Description:

Dougie Campbell is a Scottish soldier, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan returning home to the south side of Glasgow. He has just left the British Army but cannot forget his experiences of combat. A battle rages inside him as he struggles to adjust to civilian life, trying to live with his memories and understand his need for recognition.

Review:

The only graphic novel I'm aware of on the war in Afghanistan, it reveals the hidden cost of all wars. Very memorable and powerful. And the art is stylish, moody and cinematic. --Pat Mills, Charleys War, Judge Dredd and 2000 AD

A highly unusual novel with graphics... like the writing, the artwork is excellent' --Sunday Express

A hard-tinning tale about Post-traumatic Stress Disorder... it hammers home its message without being preachy... as forceful as any conventional novel or non-fiction account --The Big Issue

Its attempt to be honest, without being sensational or voyeuristic about the tragedy of war, is a successful one --Sunday Herald

Raises questions about the validity of the wars our country is conducting and, particularly, the effect these conflicts have on those involved --The Spectator

'...throughout the book Dave Turbitt finds effective ways to illustrate the sheer psychic disruption of PTSD, the sudden intrusion of nightmares into waking life. His most powerful images find a minimal modernism for Joe Colquhoun's expressionism...' --Scottish Review of Books

About this edition

• Publisher: Freight Design
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0954402480
• ISBN 13: 9780954402488
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Illustrator: Dave Turbitt