Eucalyptus no Kinoshita de - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 3
• 1977

• Vol: 6
• 1983 - 1986

In early 1941, Krilo is living a quiet life in his home town in Yugoslavia. He's a bit of a problem student and is influenced by the political ideas brought back by his older brother Ivan, a college student in Zagreb. Even though there are news and rumors of Nazi Germany on the move, it seems impossible that war could come to their peaceful village. In late March, the Yugoslavian government signed the Tripartite Treaty with Hitler, but the government fell to a coup d'etat only days later. In early April, Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany. That invasion shattered Krilo's peaceful life. Countless people in the village are killed by the German invasion, and the others are rounded up. Krilo evades capture, but has no idea what to do next. He sets out for Zagreb in search of his older brother. Krilo's childhood friend, Fi, on the other hand, was among those who were rounded up. She faces a whole different kind of adversity, as she is processed with the others by the Nazi military. The invasion may be over, but the fight for Yugoslavia has just begun.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 1995

Includes the following chapters:

• 1-2. Shounen-tachi no Senjou
• 3-4. Melody of Jenny
• 5. American Dream

• Vol: 1
• 1955

These are the adventures of a young man named Tarou, who is an extra on the movie Ryuusei Oujo, and his daily life. There is once again a second half, which is the tale of a group of high school boys during World War II who defend their homes using kendo skills while their fathers are at war, one of whom eventually find himself in the military as well.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 3
• 2007

• Vol: 4
• 1976 - 1978

Kinta, a young boy, lives at his grandfather's home in Chiba Department. On August 15, 1945, a B-29 crashes into a field near his home. The peasants are preparing to attack the pilot with bits of bamboo, but the grandfather, a wise writer, calms the population by announcing the harsh reality: Japan has just surrendered and now they must respect the Americans. After discussion, the old man agrees to welcome the stranger home. Then begins for Kinta a period of learning and especially, through him, the discovery of the sexuality, the pangs of life and the baseness of human feelings, it is also the Japan of the immediate post-war period which is depicted in its rapid changes and its direct confrontation with the West. How not to see, in the vocation of this child for drawing and his fascination for a sometimes troubled sexuality, a great autobiographical work that traces with a bitter tenderness a life to be invented in a world turned upside down?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 1997

Daisuke took a step. He was asked to join the Tokko (aka Kamikaze) and he accepted, offering his life to his country. Set during the very end of World War 2, this story begins when Daisuke decides to die and tells the reader why he decided to make such an extreme decision. Was it for his country, was it for peace, or was it because everyone else made the same choice? What's in a man's mind when he knows he's going to die? Even in this rather tragic scenario, there is still hope -- perhaps in a picture of your mother, or in a girl, or maybe in the future...

• Vol: 2
• 2017

• Vol: 1; Ch: 15
• 2017

Tells the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War ― a disputed chapter in twentieth-century Asian history. Beginning in Lee’s childhood, it shows the lead-up to the war from a child’s vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Koreans. 

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2015

Each chapter focuses on a character who recalls the experiences of the WW2: a survivor of the Special Attack Units who remembers an old promise, an old man tortured by his remorse or an old woman who still has the potassium cyanide that they gave in Manchukuo after the end of the war. Witnesses, participants or victims of one of the most dramatic episodes in history.