Tolkien: Lighting Up The Darkness

Tolkien: Lighting Up The DarknessDescription by Willy Duraffourg Hardcover JRR Tolkien was not always the old Oxford professor, pipe in the mouth, refining his extraordinary work. In 1915, at age 23, he left for the front with his high school friends, whom he loved like brothers. They take part in the Battle of the Somme which will kill 450,000 people. The horror of war will brand his relationship to friendship, love and creation. This graphic novel explores the youth of the author

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The implications of this secret attack raise many explosive new historical questions

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understanding that it would last at least three years and require the deployment of a mass army

Commanding more than a million men as a General

at 24 East 23rd Street

account ever given of the day-to-day lives and attitudes of the nearly 4

by Bruce Clark

a visionary

gifted engineers and enthusiastic backers

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