"Stunning." (Carl Wilkinson Financial Times)

"It is a powerful, sustained piece of work, an example of Sacco's journalistic approach." (Glasgow Sunday Herald)

"[Sacco] specializes in showing what photos can't: the enormousness and the enormity of what happened that day on the Western Front." (Douglas Wolk Washington Post)

"A landmark work which makes visceral one of the bloodiest days in history." (Labour Research)

"The art is such that you will pore over the book, cross referencing with the annotations, almost hearing the tick tick tick of the seconds that separated each wave of men from their terrible deaths. It's a powerful 'read' (despite being entirely wordless), and interesting both as a work in its own right but also as a placeholder within Sacco's career." (Bookmunch)