Twists of Fate (2018)

Roca's war epic tells a story most English readers have never heard: Spanish Republicans who lost the Civil War, fled to France and fought on, some of them in La Nueve, the company that fought its way to the liberation of Paris. A cartoonist, Roca's stand-in, coaxes the memories out of Miguel Ruiz, a reclusive veteran of 94, and the two timelines play off each other. It is Roca's most ambitious book, with most combat sequences left wordless. Roca adds fictional elements to the history, as his afterword admits, so treat it as a novel built on real events rather than a record of them. Fantagraphics published it in English in 2018.