“I like this concept, Garth Ennis playing out the small aspects of WWII by inventing characters to take us through them. It’s like having a memoir about something we might not be able to read a memoir about. It makes things more personal than “And on this day, they did this, which moved the line this direction, which was good/bad, and here’s some troop numbers just to show you we did a bunch of research.”
I’d pose that a high school history class would leave the students knowing a lot more if they just picked like 5 memoirs from/about historical figures and let the students go to town on it. At least they’d learn SOMETHING. I mean, Teapot Dome Scandal? What the fuck is that? Why do I remember that…okay, I looked it up. Boring.
Schools, you’re welcome to use my curricula suggestion. For a very small fee. The Derk Education Framework is something I worked really hard on (just now), and I’d prefer to be compensated. What’s that you say? This fee could deny an entire generation of students an improved education? Eh, I didn’t get it. And I’m fine. Hell, I’m inventing educational systems over here. “