EXCLUSIVE: Read an excerpt from 40 MEN AND 12 RIFLES: INDOCHINA 1954

This week, Arsenal Pulp Press is releasing 40 Men and 12 Rifles: Indochina 1954. The graphic novel comes from French cartoonist Marcelino Truong, and is translated for English readers by David Homel. Set within the early ’50s, the e book follows a younger Vietnamese painter who’s made to hitch the army. Today The Beat is happy to current an unique excerpt from the graphic novel.

Here’s how Arsenal Pulp Press describes 40 Men and 12 Rifles: Indochina 1954:

40 Men and 12 Rifles is an expansive, gripping graphic novel set in Indochina within the 12 months main as much as 1954, when the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu fell after a fifty-five-day battle, resulting in the top of the primary Indochina warfare opposing each French and Nationalist Vietnamese forces to Ho Chi Minh’s National-Communist underground state. Minh (no relation to Ho) is a younger man from Hanoi, an aspiring painter who goals of experiencing la vie de boheme in Paris’s Latin Quarter. To dissuade him from pursuing an creative life, his father sends him into the countryside to are likely to the household holdings. He is quickly pressed into serving with the Ho Chi Minh People’s Army, the place he turns into a soldier, and is co-opted by his leaders to the Communist propaganda machine, regardless of repeatedly defying his cadres – ideological Communist commanders with whom he disagrees – changing into each hero and anti-hero within the course of.

40 Men and 12 Rifles is a shifting and superbly illustrated e book in regards to the human and creative spirit of the Indochinese individuals, who persevered within the face of warfare and struggling.

40 Men and 12 Rifles is the second of two Arsenal Pulp Press releases this week that translate a historically-set graphic novel into English for the primary time. Yesterday The Beat offered an excerpt from the opposite new launch, a biography of Turkish chief Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Check out the unique excerpt of 40 Men and 12 Rifles under. The graphic novel is due out in shops right now.