DES MOINES, Iowa (WKRC/KCCI/CNN Newsource) - A soldier who grew up on comic books is now creating them to share the perspectives of combat veterans with others. Basi Affia, 26, says he has been ...

JODI LONG SPOKE WITH THE MAN BEHIND IT. THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT COMIC BOOKS. I DON’T THINK THERE WAS A PARTICULAR BOOK. I THINK IT WAS JUST LIKE OVERALL THAT HAS HOOKED BATAVIA SINCE HE WAS A KID.

One hundred years ago, on November 11, 1921, after the end of World War I, the first Unknown Soldier was interred at Arlington National Cemetery. Since the site of the white marble memorial provides a ...

CRACK OF DOOM (313 pp.)—Willi Heinrich—Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($3.95). Willi Heinrich is a 37-year-old German novelist whose specialty is the look, smell and sound of military defeat. He came by his ...