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| Adolf, Volume 1: A Tale of the Twentieth Century (Adolf) | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 10 reviews)
Sales Rank: 737685
Category: Book
Publisher: Cadence Books, Inc.
Studio: Cadence Books, Inc.
Manufacturer: Cadence Books, Inc.
Label: Cadence Books, Inc.
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd printing
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 264
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1569310580
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781569310588
ASIN: 1569310580
Publication Date: December 22, 2001
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Amazon.com Review
Osamu Tezuka is often credited with being one of the pioneers of "story manga"-- long, narrative comics for adults. His stories frequently run thousands of pages and comprise dozens of volumes. He is known in America (though not by name) as the animator of Astro Boy and Kimba, the White Lion. Adolf, his last major work before his death in 1989, is his first full-length work available in English. It's the story of three individuals named Adolf: a Jewish boy living in Japan, a half-Japanese/half- German boy, and the leader of Nazi Germany. This is a wonderfully fresh perspective on the events of World War II.
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 the book you can't get January 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Amazon disappoints May 29, 2006
1 out of 15 found this review helpful
The Manga series is great, but Amazon has disappointed me greatly. I bought the entire series of Adolf from amazon and while i recieved the last four books, the first volume hasnt been shipped and its been nearly 4 months since my order.
Owning the rest of the books without the first is worthless. Amazon should have been more truthful and just stated that this item is not in stock, instead of saying it will ship in 2 weeks. I would not have spent $44 on the rest of the books.
Awesome spy story January 22, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
From the hype surrounding this I was expecting something kind of educational or with serious history. I was pleasantly surprised. This read as a good spy story.
The Adolf series proposes to tell the stories of three Adolfs. One is the historic Hitler. The other two are fictional. We start by following the story of Toge, a Japanese reporter in Berlin to cover the 1936 Olympics and to some extent our narrator through these stories. His brother is an exchange student living in Berlin. Toge receives a call from his brother about a secret that will throw Hitler out of power. When Toge arrives he finds his brother murdered. The police take the body but it never arrives at the station. When Toge tries to track down the body he finds that no one will admit to having met his brother and the police (who also have no record of the murder) claim that he must be making the story up. Through the first half of this book we follow Toge's search for information about his brother in Berlin. He wants to bury and avenge his brother, and gets caught up in something much bigger. Somehow the murder is connected with a murder of a Geisha six months earlier in Japan. Both victims had plaster under their fingernails. When Toge returns to Japan he continues to search for the truth about his brother.
Through this Geisha we are introduced to the next two Adolfs. One is the son of the prime suspect for the murder, a high ranking German intelligence officer stationed in Japan. The third Adolf is a Jewish German whose family is in Japan because that is a better place for them to live than is Germany. The two boys are the same age and are best friends, which bothers both families. Non-jewish Adolf doesn't want to go to school in Germany and take the career path that his father wants for him, because he doesn't want to be taught that jews and therefore jewish-Adolf are bad. Both Adolfs come to learn the horrible secret that can destroy Hitler and so they are caught up in the bigger story.
This is a really great and well paced story. I got pulled in and had to finish it. I had put off reading it because much of the hype I had heard about it made it sound dry and educational. It isn't dry. I'm sure that I learned something from seeing a telling of WWII from a Japanese perspective, but regardless this is a good story.
I highly recommend this book. Keep in mind that there are a couple of graphic torture scenes, a rape and a suicide (and book 2 gets much much worse). So don't give this to your fourth grader to teach them history.
The first volume in a great, epic series June 19, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Osamu Tezuka's, 'Adolf: A Tale of the Twentieth Century,' is the opening chapter in what will turn out to be an epic, sweeping tale of 3 Adolf's - Adolf Hitler, Adolf Kamil (a jewish boy growing up in Japan) and Adolf Kaufman (a half japanese, half german youth). Within this framework, Tezuka will spin a deep and moving story set against the backdrop of Japan and Germany during WWII providing both entertainment and fresh historical perspective of events during this timeframe.Spanning 5 volumes and over 1300 pages readers will easily glide through each book thanks to Tezuka's sharp and easy-to-digest narrative along with his crisp black & white artwork. This series is highly recommended to anyone interested in graphic novels, excellent storytelling and WWII. Definitely start with this first volume and enjoy the rest of the tale over the next 4 books.
Serious Manga for adults July 26, 2001
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This, in short, is the good stuff. An excellent eye-opener for those who think of the manga genre as black and white anime that doesn't move. This manga series is a very human telling of the story of WWII through the eyes of 3 men named Adolf. The style will perhaps not appeal to those who are used to American style or even the more recent Japanese style but to those willing to give it a chance, the storytelling is fantastic. This edition is on pretty nice paper and is definately worth the money.
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