Featuring breathtaking panoramas and revelatory; unforgettable images; Battle Lines is an utterly original graphic history of the Civil War. A collaboration between the award-winning historian Ari Kelman and the acclaimed graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm; Battle Lines showcases various objects from the conflict (a tattered American flag from Fort Sumter; a pair of opera glasses; a bullet; an inkwell; and more); along with a cast of soldiers; farmers; slaves; and well-known figures; to trace an ambitious narrative that extends from the early rumblings of secession to the dark years of Reconstruction. Employing a bold graphic form to illuminate the complex history of this period; Kelman and Fetter-Vorm take the reader from the barren farms of the home front all the way to the front lines of an infantry charge. A daring presentation of the war that nearly tore America apart; Battle Lines is a monumental achievement.
#53820 in Books Hill and Wang 1996-01-31 1996-01-31Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.22 x .37 x 5.49l; .30 #File Name: 0809015838144 pages
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