title: Notes for a War Story
author:  Gipi 
description: Award-winning Italian graphic novelist Gipi (<I>Garage Band</I>, <I>The Innocents</I>) returns with this bleak tale of three young drifters making their way across the war-torn landscape of an unnamed Balkan country. Told from the point of view of protagonist Giuliano, the narrative traces his path as he is forced to go through the peripheral results of war as a deadening day-to-day struggle to find food and shelter while avoiding the occasional stray bullet. Falling in with Felix, a sleazy criminal kingpin, Giuliano and his companions soon serve as executors for Felix's extortion racket and later move up the underworld food chain into endeavors in a city removed from the hardships of the war, petty thuggery slowly escalating to murder. Gipi keeps the war itself off screen, instead allowing the conflict's effects upon the young men to play out in numb, soulless detail, a storytelling device that affords the tale a stark and depressing realism further driven home by the cartoony illustrations. While not easy reading, the affecting story is made even more powerful by the understated execution. Winner of the Best Book prize at the Angoul&ecirc;me Comics Festival in 2005. <I>(Aug.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  BAEN BOOKS BY JOHN DALMAS ****
  
  _The Regiment_ ****
  
  _The White Regiment_ ****
  
  _The Regiment's War_ ****
  
  _The Yngling and the Circle of Power_ ****
  
  _The Yngling in Yamato_ ****
  
  _The Lizard War_
  
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  **JOHN DALMAS**
  
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  THE YNGLING IN YAMATO ****
  
  This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
  book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely
  coincidental. ****
  
  Copyright © 1994 by John Dalmas ****
  
  All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions
  thereof in any form. ****
  
  A Baen Books Original ****
  
  Baen Publishing Enterprises P.O. Box 1403 Riverdale, NY 10471 ****
  
  ISBN: 0-671-87634-1 ****
  
  Cover art by David Miller First printing, December 1994 ****
  
  Distributed by Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New Yo