Battlefront

Ian Gooderson presents a study of close air support in World War II, with the analysis focusing on the use of tactical air power by British and American forces during the campaigns in Italy and northwestern Europe between 1943 and 1945.

From Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of the international sensation Trigun, comes Blood Blockade Battlefront, a megaton manga blast of science-fiction insanity! An escaped Blood Breed brings Libra operative Zap Renfro's former master to New Jerusalem, and Zap must prove his skills to avoid being dragged back to the harsh training grounds of his school. And can Zap find a way to imprison the Blood Breed before it wreaks untold havoc?

Carl Lavin was a high school senior when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Canton, Ohio, native was eighteen when he enlisted, a decision that would take him with the US Army from training across the United States and Britain to combat with the 84th Infantry Division in the Battle of the Bulge. Home Front to Battlefront is the tale of a foot soldier who finds himself thrust into a world where he and his unit grapple with the horrors of combat, the idiocies of bureaucracy, and the oddities of life back home—all in the same day. The book is based on Carl’s personal letters, his recollections and those of the people he served beside, official military history, private papers, and more. Home Front to Battlefront contributes the rich details of one soldier’s experience to the broader literature on World War II. Lavin’s adventures, in turn disarming and sobering, will appeal to general readers, veterans, educators, and students of the war. As a history, the book offers insight into the wartime career of a Jewish Ohioan in the military, from enlistment to training through overseas deployment. As a biography, it reflects the emotions and the role of the individual in a total war effort that is all too often thought of as a machine war in which human soldiers were merely interchangeable cogs.

"The agents of Libra need funding for their fight to preserve order in Hellsalem's Lot. A wealthy sheik invites Libra to dine on the exotic fusion cuisine of Earth and the Beyond, but impending danger could spell Libras doom--if the food doesn't kill them first!"--

From Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of the international sensation Trigun, comes Blood Blockade Battlefront, a paranormal hurricane of epic proportions! In Hellsalem's Lot--the former New York City--the agents of Libra fight to preserve balance in the mystical collision of two worlds. When fish-man Libra agent Zed O'Brien looks for a moonlight gig to help defray the cost of his survival gear, a legendary arms dealer steals the apparatus, putting Zed's life in jeopardy. With the clock ticking, the Libra team must mount an attack on the dealer's heavily fortified office and retrieve Zed's gear before he suffocates!

Sci-fi insanity from Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of Trigun and Gungrave! Traffic in New York has never been a picnic, but with the Big Apple destroyed and rebuilt as the dimensional-gate madhouse known as Jerusalem's Lot, gridlock is a little more complicated. When the city's forty million jailed paranormal criminals are about to be set loose by a monster truck — literally, a monster truck — the super agents of Libra may have to contend with a rush hour of apocalyptic proportions!

Trigun creator, Yasuhiro Nightow, returns to Dark Horse with a frantic new mini-series — Blood Blockade Battlefront! In Nightow's new world, a breach between Earth and the netherworlds has opened up over the city of New York, trapping New Yorkers and creatures from other dimensions in an impenetrable bubble. They've lived together for years, in a world of crazy crime sci-fi sensibilities. Now someone is threatening to sever the bubble, and a group of stylish superhumans is working to keep it from happening. Like Trigun, Nightow's Blood Blockade Battlefront is non-stop action, unbridled imagination, and a ton of strange weaponry.

Paging is from back to front to preserve the original Japanese format.