Battle Born: Lapis Lazuli
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This Hardcover Edition of Maximilian Uriarte's Battle Born: Lapis Lazuli is autographed on a bookplate by Maximilian Uriarte.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Battle Born was written and illustrated by infantry Marine and Iraq veteran Maximilian Uriarte, creator of the hit comic strip Terminal Lance. Uriarte enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 2006 at the age of nineteen and served for four years. During his first deployment to Iraq in 2007 he served as an MRAP turret gunner and dismount of India Company's "Jump" platoon in the Zaidon region southeast of Fallujah. He deployed to Iraq again in 2009 as a billeted Combat Photographer and Combat Artist, then enrolling in California College of the Arts. He is the New York Times bestselling author of The White Donkey and the Terminal Lance Ultimate Omnibus.
REVIEWS:
Uriarte's manga-derived graphic chops and storytelling technique have grown immensely since The White Donkey; his deliberate pacing, especially in the book's final sequences, is daringly bold. But the combat-based verisimilitude he brings... is its strongest element.
―Gordon Flagg, Booklist
Uriarte's illustrations are lush and vivid, with an appealing manga-tinted realism...The effect is sumptuously cinematic with the depth of an action movie.
―Kirkus
...The story works best as a tragic meditation on the value of honor and justice in a world ruled by violence.
―Library Journal
An epic saga from the voice of a new generation of military veterans about kindness, brutality, and the remains of colonialism.
―Veterans Today
Thrillingly cinematic…This visceral war story reinforces the difficulty of decisions by forces fighting across blurred lines.
―Publishers Weekly