In The Red Baron, graphic artist and author Wayne Vansant illustrates the incredible story of Manfred von Richthofen, whose unparalleled piloting prowess as a member of the Imperial German Army Air Service made him a World War I celebrity, both in the air and on the ground. In his signature style, enjoyed by readers of Normandy and Bombing Nazi Germany, Vansant beautifully depicts the fearsome intelligence and mid-flight awareness that would earn Richthofen eighty documented air combat victories over the Western Front in the halcyon days of military aviation. From his beginnings as cavalry member and a pilot-in-training to the years he spent commanding Jasta 11 from the cockpit of his fabled red plane, to his eventual leadership of the ultra-mobile Jagdgeschwader 1 (aptly nicknamed Richtofen's Flying Circus by nervous foes because of the group's colorful airplanes and mobile airfields), The Red Baron brings the story of this legendary figure to life. Richthofen died young under controversial circumstances, but the Red Baron's astonishing skill and tactical acumen lived on far long after his death and helped usher in a new type of warfare that would reign supreme twenty-five years later: war in the air.

Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in 96 full-color pages. The initial paratrooper assault is shown, as well as the storming of the five D-Day beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. But the story does not end there. Once the Allies got ashore, they had to stay ashore. The Germans made every effort to push them back into the sea. This book depicts the such key events in the Allied liberation of Europe as: 1. Construction of the Mulberry Harbors, two giant artificial harbors built in England and floated across the English Channel so that troops, vehicles, and supplies could be offloaded across the invasion beaches.2. The Capture of Cherbourg, the nearest French port, against a labyrinth of Gennan pillboxes.3. The American fight through the heavy bocage (hedgerow country) to take the vital town of Saint-Lô.4. The British-Canadian struggle for the city of Caen against the Hitler Youth Division, made up of 23,000 seventeen- and eighteen-year-old Nazi fanatics.5. The breakout of General Patton's Third Army and the desperate US 30th Division's defense of Mortaine.6. The Falaise Pocket, known as the Killing Ground, where the remnants of two German armies were trapped and bombed and shelled into submission. The slaughter was so great that 5,000 Germans were buried in one mass grave. 7. The Liberation of Paris, led by the 2nd Free French Armored Division, which had been fighting for four long years with this goal in mind.

Tales of the Waffen SS and here award winning comic writer and artist Wayne Vansant provides the stories of the German Panzer troops during World War II.

This edition collects for the first time Wayne's previous tales that were released as individual comics or as short tales. Included is the acclaimed Battle Group Peiper and how the infamous German commander during the Battle of the Bulge committed one of the greatest atrocities against American soldiers. Also three short tales of young German tank soldiers that experience the horrors of war and this is capped off by the story of the Witches' Cauldron, the incredible saga of the Cherkassy Pocket battle between retreating German forces and the Soviet army on the Eastern Front.

Vansant concludes a few months later at the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery in November, 1863, when Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most iconic speeches of all time, the Gettysburg Address. Gettysburg delivers one of the hallmark events of American history in an exciting and innovative format.

Fought in the winter of 1944-1945, the coldest season in over 100 years, the Battle of the Bulge still ranks as the single largest battle ever fought by the United States Army. Thirty-one American divisions - fully one-third of the U.S. Army raised during World War II - saw action in this battle. This battle was truly a test: could this conscript army from a pacifistic democracy defeat the best remaining men and machines that Germany's totalitarian government could produce? In Battle of the Bulge, author and artist Wayne Vansant brings readers into the frozen foxholes, haunting forests, and devastated villages of the Ardennes during that freezing cold winter. With meticulous historical accuracy and hand-drawn visuals that can tell a story in ways words alone cannot, Vansant recounts the Bulge with insightful detail, replaying the thrusts and volleys of both the combined Allied and German forces during the tumultuous battle. This is a story of panic, fear, and physical misery; a story of how a generation of draftees, National Guardsmen, and a small core of regular officers and NCOs faced those three elements as snow piled around their foxholes and the incessant drumming of artillery splintered the woods that gave them shelter. It is the story of men, frozen and hurting, far from home and holding little hope of seeing it again until the killing finally ended. Above all, TheBattle of the Bulge is a story of incredible triumph, now beautifully illustrated in graphic novel format for the first time.

World War II action in North Africa

From acclaimed comic writer/artist Wayne Vansant (CALIBER COMICS's Days of Darkness, Days of Wrath, Knights of the Skull). An action/adventure tale of the French Legionnaire soldier, Battron, a man without a country, who is involved with the liberation of a freebooting French ship, the Martel, from a heavily guarded Vichy French port during World War II. The Allies want the ship destroyed; the Germans have sent serious resources and firepower to save it and keep it afloat. But a critical security leak in British intelligence could jeopardize not only the mission but Battron's life. The key is the beautiful former mistress of the Martel's captain, enlisted in the hope she can convince him to join the Free French movement with his ship. But has she told the Allies all she knows? And can Battron and his skillful commandos complete their dangerous mission in time under the looming shadow of the pending Allied invasion of North Africa? As things swirl around between the Free French, the Germans, and the German occupied French Vichy, a new player enters the fray...the Americans. Battron is caught between all of them in an attempt to secure the ship they all are desperate to obtain.

Collects comic issues 1-3.

This epic graphic novel from acclaimed comic's writer and artist Wayne Vansant collects his incredible mini-series that depicts the early days of the United States in the Second World War. Days of Darkness covers the darkest days of World War II, when the United States went from the tragedy of Pearl Harbor to the triumph at Midway. Here is covered in detail the attack of the US Naval base and the devastation of the fleet in Hawaii, the action moves to the evacuation of the Philippines, the horror of the Death March of Bataan, and the the dramatic Battle of Midway which stopped the Japanese juggernaut in the Pacific. Creator Wayne Vansant, best known for his exacting detail on the long running popular MARVEL series, The 'Nam, chronicles the participation of the Cahill family as their lives are irrevocably changed forever as their world is plunged into war.

French Legionnaire Battron is on a mission in Sicily with a group of Americans to assist in the Allies invasion of Italy during WWII !

Sicily, Summer 1943. Occupying various obscure outposts in the mountains around Mt. Etna, Battron and his intelligence team has observed and reported on German columns rushing toward the Allied invasion beaches on the western part of the island. They have even directed several air strikes from British bombers causing costly bloody damage.

After one especially destructive raid, Battron's group decides it is now time to give up their positions and retreat to the west and the safety of the advancing Americans. Anticipating this, a German intelligence officer named Essenbeck sends columns of German and Italian troops into the mountains to track them down. At the same time a barbaric Mafioso and his minions pursue them with even more determination, with the purpose of recovering a beautiful young woman captive who has attached herself to Robert Beck and fled with the team.

Pursued by elite troops, blood-thirsty gangsters, observation planes and even a lone panzer, Battron and his friends must fight their way to the west to survive and fight another day.

Fifth book in the Battron action/adventure graphic novel series!

This graphic novel edition collects for the first time Vansant's previous tales that were released as individual comics or as short stories. Included here is the acclaimed Battle Group Peiper and how the infamous German commander during the Battle of the Bulge committed one of the greatest atrocities against American soldiers. Also three short tales of young German tank soldiers that experience the horrors of war and this is capped off by the story of the Witches' Cauldron, the incredible saga of the Cherkassy Pocket battle between retreating German forces and the Soviet army on the Eastern front.

A great companion piece to Wayne Vansant's Days of Darkness, Days of Wrath, and Battron WWII graphic novels.

An action/adventure tale of the French Legionnaire soldier, Battron, a man without a country, who is involved with the liberation of a freebooting French ship, the Martel, from a heavily guarded Vichy French port during World War II. The Allies want the ship destroyed; the Germans have sent serious resources and firepower to save it and keep it afloat. But a critical security leak in British intelligence could jeopardize not only the mission but Battron's life. The key is the beautiful former mistress of the Martel's captain, enlisted in the hope she can convince him to join the Free French movement with his ship. But has she told the Allies all she knows? And can Battron and his skillful commandos complete their dangerous mission in time under the looming shadow of the pending Allied invasion of North Africa? As things swirl around between the Free French, the Germans, and the German occupied French Vichy, a new player enters the fray...the Americans. Battron is caught between all of them in an attempt to secure the ship they all are desperate to obtain.

First book in the BATTRON graphic novel series!

This graphic novel edition collects for the first time Vansant's previous tales that were released as individual comics or as short stories. Included here is the acclaimed Battle Group Peiper and how the infamous German commander during the Battle of the Bulge committed one of the greatest atrocities against American soldiers. Also three short tales of young German tank soldiers that experience the horrors of war, and this is capped off by the the story of the Witches' Cauldron, the incredible saga of the Cherkassy Pocket battle between retreating German forces and the Soviet army on the Eastern Front.

A perfect companion book to Wayne Vansant's Days of Darkness, Days of Wrath, and Battron WWII graphic novels.

French Legionnaire Battron returns to battle German Panzer units in the Belgium forest during World War II !

DECEMBER, 1944. The onset of winter and retreat of German forces along the western front brings hope of an end to the war by Christmas among the Allied troops. With a lull in the fighting Sgt. Battron of the French Foreign Legions decides to take a week's leave to deliver his wounded for care and accompany his friend, Esclaviar, to his home in southern Belgium.

But as soon as they get within a few miles of their destination, Battron and Esclaviar get caught up in a massive German counter-offensive in the Belgium Ardennes Forest; a campaign that will later become known as the Battle of the Bulge.

Battron and Esclaviar will find themselves involved in a pitch battle between elite German Panzer forces on one side and a motley group of green American stragglers and a seasoned U.S. Armored Infantry Company on the other. At stake is the remote, seemingly insignificant town of Aufenscheidt. Populated by a handful of townspeople, including an old angry priest, and a young regal blonde, Aufenscheidt seems unimportant on the Nazi list of significant battle objectives...

...But deep in the town's dark stone bowels lays a treasure more valuable to the Germans than gold! And Battron will stop at nothing to find out what that is.

From Wayne Vansant, writer and illustrator of the award-winning historical military graphic novels DAYS OF DARKNESS, and DAYS OF WRATH.

December 1944. In Belgium's Ardennes forest, Hitler's last gamble on the western front is playing out as his German Panzer units and SS Shock Troops are assaulting the long, ragged thin line of the U.S. 1st Army. An engagement that will later be called the Battle of the Bulge. Cold, worn out veterans and green G.I.s are hanging on in their foxholes, and sometimes dying in them. But can they hold out? Or will the Wehrmacht crack the line and drive the Americans back to Paris?

In the remote village of Aufenscheidt, a mixed rag-tag group of Allied soldiers are persevering against increasing attacks from numerous German units, which seem to be intensifying hour-by-hour. Why the Germans want the seemingly unimportant town is a mystery. But every individual feels the physical and emotional pressure, including Sergeant Battron. Separated on the battlefield from his French Foreign Legion group, Battron struggles to support both his old friend Esclaviar who wishes to return to his family, while still keeping faith that these Americans fighting by his side will hold out against the German onslaught.

But as the Germans gradually crack the outer walls of Aufenscheidt, and tighten the noose around the town, the cost of these assaults and defense will be handed out to each individual in direct relation to personal effort. And that final cost may be exorbitant to everyone on all sides...

DECEMBER, 1944. The onset of winter and retreat of German forces along the western front brings hope of an end to the war by Christmas among the Allied troops. With a lull in the fighting Sgt. Battron of the French Foreign Legions decides to take a week's leave to deliver his wounded for care and accompany his friend, Esclaviar, to his home in southern Belgium.

But as soon as they get within a few miles of their destination, Battron and Esclaviar get caught up in a massive German counter-offensive in the Belgium Ardennes Forest; a campaign that will later become known as the Battle of the Bulge.

Battron and Esclaviar will find themselves involved in a pitch battle between elite German Panzer forces on one side and a motley group of green American stragglers and a seasoned U.S. Armored Infantry Company on the other. At stake is the remote, seemingly insignificant town of Aufenscheidt. Populated by a handful of townspeople, including an old angry priest, and a young regal blonde, Aufenscheidt seems unimportant on the Nazi list of significant battle objectives...

...But deep in the town's dark stone bowels lays a treasure more valuable to the Germans than gold! And Battron will stop at nothing to find out what that is.

From Wayne Vansant, writer and illustrator of the award-winning historical military graphic novels DAYS OF DARKNESS, and DAYS OF WRATH.

Sicily, Summer 1943. Occupying various obscure outposts in the mountains around Mt. Etna, Battron and his intelligence team has observed and reported on German columns rushing toward the Allied invasion beaches on the western part of the island. They have even directed several air strikes from British bombers causing costly bloody damage.

After one especially destructive raid, Battron's group decides it is now time to give up their positions and retreat to the west and the safety of the advancing Americans. Anticipating this, a German intelligence officer named Essenbeck sends columns of German and Italian troops into the mountains to track them down. At the same time a barbaric Mafioso and his minions pursue them with even more determination, with the purpose of recovering a beautiful young woman captive who has attached herself to Robert Beck and fled with the team.

Pursued by elite troops, blood-thirsty gangsters, observation planes and even a lone panzer, Battron and his friends must fight their way to the west to survive and fight another day.

Fifth book in the Battron action/adventure graphic novel series!

French Legionnaire Battron parachutes into Sicily to lay the groundwork for the allies invasion of Italy during WWII !

July, 1943. In preparation for the British-American invasion of Sicily, Battron parachutes onto the island with a mixed group of Allied intelligence operators. Led by his old comrade Captain Bryan Watson-Cole (SOE), and a young Lt. Robert Beck (OSS) who has family relations within the Italian population, and underworld connections stretching back to the New York Mafia.

The team is on Sicily to observe and report on German troop and supply movements to the frontlines. But by seeking the aid of the local underworld, they may have put themselves up for sale to the Germans. When the invasion finally comes, and the wheels of battle begin to turn in earnest, Battron and his team go about their job of professionally observing and reporting German movements down a major mountain road.

But when one of their team commits a single innocent discretion, the whole mission is thrown into turmoil, which could cause the death of hundreds, maybe thousands, and even hamper the outcome of the invasion.