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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9780140094190 Edition: New edition ISBN: 0140094199 Label: Penguin Manufacturer: Penguin Number Of Pages: 48 Publication Date: January 29, 1987 Publisher: Penguin Studio: Penguin Related Items:
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 Rating: - Just about the most powerful reading experience you can haveLike many people I read this as kid because of a love for Raymond Briggs' work and also a strange fascination for nuclear apocalypse. Even given that combination of thoughts, feelings and expectations I didn't know quite what to expect and by the end was left in tears, moved more by this one 'graphic novel' than I have by almost any book or film before or since. The story loses none of its power despite the threat of nuclear holocaust not being quite as immediate as it sometimes seemed to be in the 1980s. A must read for anyone who can stomach the sometimes unpleasant imagery and, more importantly, the heartbreaking storyline. Read this and I don't think you will ever be quite the same person again. Rating: - A work of geniusLike most people who read this comic, I was in tears by the end. The gradual transformation of Jim and Hilda from rosy-cheeked retired couple to emancipated victims of radiation sickness made this one of the most upsetting books I have ever read. A truly honest look at the effects of nuclear war. Rating: - The only comic that made me cryI found this book completely by accident when my parents were sorting out their house and read it that night. I was brought to tears by the story. Jim and Hilda Bloggs are a typical retired couple living in rural Sussex during the height of the Cold War in the early 1980s. They reminicse on their experiences of WW2 through rose tinted glasses while building their own fall out shelter, following the government guidelines to the letter, even when the instructions contradict themselves. The first half of the book is pretty much a black comedy as Jim and Hilda try and understand what's going on, but the second half is gut wrenching as they suffer the effects of radiation sickness, still believing that someone come and help them. Brigg's style changes accordingly, starting bright and colourful like his other stories but then going to a deathly pallor as the radiation becomes more prevalent before fading to black. It's beautifully told and thought provoking. Jim and Hilda (based very much on Brigg's own parents) are probably like people you know and sometimes you feel like shaking the book to make them understand, but instead you just have to keep on reading, no matter how it makes you feel. Rating: - Still packs a punch!It's amazing how this book can still shock and stirr intense emotion today, even when the threat of superpowers and 'The Bomb' is supposedly very small, if not vanished. I first read this book in my early teens (which wasn't that long ago) and was disturbed and prevoked beyond any book - novel or illustrated - I had read before. Even now I have come accross little in the way of literature that has stirred similar emotion. Overall despite the apparent unity and peace between the super-powers today this book is still relevant and can still pack a punch, even in a society now obsessed with a seemingly very different threat. Rating: - This book will change youI too was a teenager when I first read this book. It was back in the 80's and we were all paranoid about the bomb. Jim and Hilda are so like my grandparents, it added to the difficulty of reading this book. Brigg's illustrations are so factual that you believe you are there. The minute details, like in Father Christmas and The Snowman, remind you that this is little old England. The book oozes with bulldog spirit and optimism as much as ignorance and soul destroying pessimism. The graphic effects are amazing. Normallity is interrupted by dramatic views of the machinery of war. Jim remembers the blitz almost with fondness, and reflects on the fickleness of war, "of course then the Ruskies were on our side". The final pages, Jims attempt at the Lords Prayer, I can't read anymore. I am normally too tearful and so sickened. I am very glad to see it back in print, a couple of years ago I had Amazon hunt down a 2nd hand copy, even at collectors price this haunting beautiful fable was well worth it. Alex  Try searching the Internet for "When the Wind Blows" or Ebay for "When the Wind Blows". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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