a certain bond. Colonel Spirodonov Bolshevik officer in the Russian Civil War. A former soldier in the Czar's army, he suffered brutally in a penal battalion forced to build the so-called 'Death Railway' in Murmansk. Knowing the railway was commissioned and paid for by the British government, he has vowed revenge on all Englishmen. Len Bourne Charley and Kate's son, who after a row with his parents joins the British Army. At one point Charley believes Len to have been killed only for them to reunite outside Dunkirk, although Len has severe shell shock and nearly causes the death of his father. Joe 'Wattsie' Watts A former jockey and member of Charley's section in France, 1940. Wattsie and Charley become best friends and manage to escape to the Dunkirk perimeter before Wattsie is seriously wounded. Sergeant Bert 'Ol Nick' Nickles Charley's Platoon Sergeant in the B.E.F. and nemesis. Nickles, who is vicious and nasty, resents Charley's experience from the Great War. 'Ol Nick becomes more and more sadistic until he meets his match in Major Klaus Rimmer, also known as Atilla the Hun. Archie Bentall and Cyril 'Handy' Hordle Cut off from their unit like Charley and Wattsie, they join up and escape the attacking German Army in a Bren Carrier they find in a barn. The four have various adventures during the retreat from Belgium until Wattsie is crippled by Panzer fire, and later Handy is killed and Charley wounded by German sniper Heinrich Horst. Collected editions Titan Books released the bulk of Pat Mills' run of Charley's War in 112-page hardcover anthologies. Ten collections were published between 2004 and 2013. These collected editions finish at the end of the First World War. They do not contain the later Charley's War comics, not written by Pat Mills, where Charley takes part in the Second World War. Charley's War: 2 June – 1 August 1916 (collects episodes 1–29, November 2004, ) 1 August – 17 October 1916 (collects episodes 30–59, November 2005, ) 17 October 1916 – 21 February 1917 (collects episodes 60–83, October 2006, ) Blue's Story (October 2007, ) Return to the Front (October 2008, ) Underground and Over the Top (October 2009, ) The Great Mutiny (November 2010, ) Hitler's Youth (October 2011, ) Death from Above (October 2012, ) The End (October 2013, ) An omnibus edition of the first three volumes was published in paperback