The Last Braedy. From Passendale to Cambrai.
Ivan Petrus
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Description for The Last Braedy. From Passendale to Cambrai.
Hardback. An illustrated WW1 graphic novel by Ivan Petrus, author of The Nieuport Gathering and Elsie & Mairi. With a foreword by David Fletcher, former director of The Tank Museum in Bovington, and a separate chapter on the real history of the WW1 tanks. Num Pages: 128 pages, 500 colour. BIC Classification: FV; FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 270 x 220. .
Vicky Braedy is the last descendant of a WW1 tank crew member: E.H. Braedy, who died exactly one hundred years ago in Passchendaele, near a legendary tank called 'Fray Bentos'. His body and the tank were never found. Vicky has inherited all his writings and memorabilia, and decides to travel to Flanders Fields with her husband, to look for clues and traces concerning her great-great grandfather. In fact, she is stepping into the footsteps of Braedy's wife, her great-great grandmother Victoria, in what will turn out to be a journey full of confrontations. When she finds out that Braedy's name ... Read more
Vicky Braedy is the last descendant of a WW1 tank crew member: E.H. Braedy, who died exactly one hundred years ago in Passchendaele, near a legendary tank called 'Fray Bentos'. His body and the tank were never found. Vicky has inherited all his writings and memorabilia, and decides to travel to Flanders Fields with her husband, to look for clues and traces concerning her great-great grandfather. In fact, she is stepping into the footsteps of Braedy's wife, her great-great grandmother Victoria, in what will turn out to be a journey full of confrontations. When she finds out that Braedy's name ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Lannoo Belgium
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Tielt, Belgium
ISBN
9789401443340
SKU
V9789401443340
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Ivan Petrus
Ivan Petrus is an illustrator who has worked on a number of comic strips, animation films and theatre productions. World War I, the first photographed and filmed war, is his great passion.
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