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title: "A Sailor's Story (Dover Graphic Novels)"
brand: "sam glanzmanlarry hamamax brooks"
price: "R737"
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reviews_count: 7
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# A Sailor's Story (Dover Graphic Novels)

**Brand:** sam glanzmanlarry hamamax brooks
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- **What is this?** A Sailor's Story (Dover Graphic Novels) by sam glanzmanlarry hamamax brooks
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Sam Glanzman was there and he is an artist
  

*by P***D on Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2022*

Sam Glansman’s A sailor’s story is his story. His and his shipmates. AS they lived it from the decks and fire-rooms of a the USS Stevens DD-479. Fans of the movie Greyhound will recognize it as a Fletcher class destroyer, only this is a real ship in the real war as fought in the Pacific Theater. Fans of what was known as comic books will also recognize the realistic ink work and drawings of a man who was much prized in the years before the term graphic novel. Readers will not just read, but see and feel what it was to deal with boredom, storms and sudden death that is what it means to be a Navy man. Not just a US Navy sailor, but a navyman in a warship. Glanzman expresses no particular affinity for his enemy, but all that he wants us to know is universal even as it is unique to him. His shipmates are his family. His respect is for his fellow tin can sailors who are forever on that longest patrolCollected in A Sailor’s Story are at least three different comic books he wrote well after World War II. The first book, A Sailor’s Story is a straightforward, somewhat sanitized version of his life in the navy Beginning with leaving his farm, where there was only his dog to leave behind to his return to that same farm months after the end of the war. He shares with us both his life as a sailor and engineer, a snipe in Navy parlance, as well as a number of asides designed to explain the technology and language of shipboard life. Every sailor learns it is a deck, not the floor, the overhead not the ceiling, extremely important, bulkheads, not walls. Glanzman may never have stood the mail buoy watch, but you can bet he was sent to get a length of chow line, or a left-handed monkey wrench.Book 1 is somewhat sanitized in that he excised much of the business of war fighting, emphasizing the personalities and events between patrols. Book 2 is somewhat choppy. He has sections beginning with his diary of that period and then particular episodes some comic, most very personal from that period. For example, I had read about the bitter and massively destructive fighting to retake Manila. The pictures of destroyed buildings and needlessly made desperate people carry emotional weight. This is not romantic, glorious war, or American flag waving. This is what people survive when war comes to them. Also included is a third title, Even Dead Birds Have Wings. This is a highly personal effort to remember, those lost at the Battle of Midway, and through them to honor those who go towards the sounds of war at whatever the hazard.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Amazing WWII History by a Comic Book King Who Served
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2022*

I enjoyed Sam Glanzman's art on G.I. Combat.  Sam drew the Haunted Tank feature and combined aspects of the greatest war artist of all time: Russ Heath and the amazing Joe Kubert.I bought "A Sailor's Story" as a child and enjoyed it.  Later in life, I also bought the sequel.  This new release is exquisitely colored and on high quality paper.You will enjoy Sam's description of destroyer life: the food, the chores, the mental stresses.  And then the combat.  What's clear is the destroyer U.S.S. Stevens is not a mere ship but the home of hundreds of young  men.  Delightful details of US Navy life abound: the time honored USN ritual when crossing the Equator, naval terminology (Port-Starboard-Fantail, etc.).A Sailor's Story brings us a fantastic firsthand view of the Second World War by a vet who was there.  Heartbreaking aspects of Sam's life: he is an orphan deeply attached to his dog Beauty.  Read this and respect this.Rest In Power Mr. Glanzman and thank you for your service and your art.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    It arrived quickly, just before my grandson left for Navy Boot Camp.
  

*by L***N on Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2022*

I bought this for my grandson just days before he left for Navy Boot Camp. He hasn't had a chance to read it yet, but it looked interesting. Hope he likes it

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