by Jason Lutes

Cartoonist Jason Lutes hugely ambitious graphic history of Weimar-era Berlin is perhaps the finest fictional depiction of pre-war Germany I've read. Taking a firmly populist perspective, Lutes' interest is not on leaders and grand strategy but on the people of the city, rich and poor, black and white, Communist and National Socialist. Lutes weaves together a daunting number of narrative threads with amazing ease, spawning dozens of memorable, believable characters and demonstrating how even a...