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**Read David Axe's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.** **The war memoir as graphic novel-an utterly unforgettable and highly original look at war in the 21st century.** Street battles with spears and arrows in sweltering East Timor. Bone- jarring artillery duels in Afghanistan's mountains. Long patrols on the sandy wastes of southern Iraq. For four years, war was life for David Axe. He was alternately bored out of his mind and completely terrified. It was strangely addictive. As a correspondent for __The Washington Times__, C-SPAN and BBC Radio, Axe flew from conflict to conflict, reveling in death, danger, and destruction abroad while, back in D.C., his apartment gathered dust, his plants died, and his relationships withered. War reporting was physically, emotionally, and financially draining-and disillusioning. Loosely based on the web comic of the same name, with extensive new material, __War Is Boring__ takes us to Lebanon and Somalia; to arms bazaars across the United States; to Detroit, as David tries to reconnect with his family-and to Chad, as David attempts to bring attention to the Darfur genocide. Watch a Video From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. War jo
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- Author
- Bors, Matt;Axe, David
- Publisher
- Penguin Group (USA), Inc.;New American Library
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780451230119
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Fiction, Graphic Novel, Memoir
- Rating
- 2.9 / 5 (434 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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