Red Baron - Rain of Blood
Authors: Pierre Veys & Carlos Puerta
Age: 12 years and up
Size: 21.7 x 28.7 cm
Full colour
48 pages
paperback
Publication: September 2014
ISBN: 9781849182119
Price: £6.99 inc. VAT
Manfred Von Richthofen survived his first aerial combat with light injuries only. As a rear gunner, though, he felt particularly frustrated by his inability to control the plane.
Convinced that he must be able to fly and shoot at the same time to make the most of his mysterious mind-reading ability, he works hard to obtain his pilot licence. It’s in March 1916, in the sky over Verdun, that the Red Baron earns his first victory as a pilot…
Now, I caused quite a stir with my review of volume 1 -most comments I had to delete but especially the two about me wanting to "rerite (sic) Nazi history"...yeah, a lot of crazy folk roll onto the internet! My point was that Richthofen, in no accounts, was described as a psycho-sociopath which is what it seemed the author of this book was saying.
This book is more on track and the art is as good as in volume 1 as we see Richthofen on his way to becoming the infamous "Red Baron". It will be interesting to see how the characterisation develops in the later books. Will I be happy? We'll see.....
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