Along with materials and direction from the publisher, I was afforded the opportunity to discuss the cover creative for this book directly with both the author and translator. It was agreed that the overall drive of imagery should convey a certain “gallows humor.”

The story’s setting takes place in WWI, where a captured Portuguese Expeditionary Corps Captain is taken to a German prison camp. I did an image search on the PEC and other related imagery. From that I found two images in particular that had, what I felt was a certain quality of gallows humor.