Excellent series - difficult to obtain first volume
Bought volumes 2-5 last year, loved the series but couldn't get a hold of the first volume until this year. If you've ordered this and are waiting for it to ship, stop: I tried to order from several different suppliers before realizing that no one's shipping new copies of this one.
To my pleasant surprise, this summer in France I discovered the series IS in print in french. If you speak the language, it's for sale for ~18 euros (~25 dollars) - still expensive, but not the crazy prices you'd pay for a used copy of the out of print english edition.
http://www.amazon.fr/Lhistoire-3-Adolf-Caroline-Pellerin/dp/2759501388/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230606292&sr=8-1
I haven't researched other countries, but I strongly recommend reading this volume first - it really sets up the rest of the excellent story very well. I would've appreciated the rest of the series more if I had read this first.
Love osamu tezuka! This is one of his greats.
A masterful look at World War II from the Japanese perspective.
Osamu Tezuka deserves every good thing that's ever been said about him. He is a master storyteller, and the stories he chooses to tell are epics. Adolf is no exception.
Adolf is the story of three people named Adolf: the chancellor of Germany, a jew living in Japan, and a half-German/half-Japanese boy who grows up in Japan, but is sent to live in Germany when he is a teenager. The story explains how the war affects the common people who aren't doing the actual fighting, and who aren't living in the middle of the battlefield, something that's rarely addressed.
This volume opens at the Olympics hosted by Germany. A reporter gets word from his brother that he's found an important document that could bring the Nazis down, but is killed before the reporter can get to him. He tries to find the man who murdered his brother, but the secret police cover it up to the point it appears his brother never existed.
In Japan, the two Adolfs become friends despite their families being enemies. Eventually, the German Adolf is sent back to Germany to join Hitler's Youth and learn to hate Jews. Neither understand where this hate comes from.
Anyone who likes a good story, historical fiction, World War II, or Manga will love this story. It is a masterpiece!
the book you can't get
I read this book in the college library Oberlin, Ohio. I can't get it for myself. It's astonishing when you think about ANYTHING Tezuka did being out of print, but presently so is Astro Boy Vol.1. Anyhow, I hope to own this book someday - if LOTS of lovely manga-readers requested it, maybe we could ALL have a chance of owning Adolf, vol.1.
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