The first graphic history to capture the full scope of the Civil
War, gorgeously drawn and expertly told
The graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and the award-winning
historian Ari Kelman team up to create a unique portrait of a
brutal and defining event in American history: the Civil War. The
result is "Battle Lines," a monumental graphic history--rendered in
Fetter-Vorm's sweeping full-color panoramas, and grounded in
Kelman's nuanced understanding of the period--offering a series of
wholly new perspectives on the conflict that turned this nation
against itself.
Each chapter in "Battle Lines "begins with an object; each object
tells its own story. A tattered flag, lowered in defeat at Fort
Sumter. A set of chains, locked to the ankles of a slave as he
scrambles toward freedom. A bullet, launched from the bore of a
terrifying new rifle. A brick, hurled from a crowd of
ration-starved rioters. With these objects and others, both iconic
and commonplace, "Battle Lines" traces a broad and ambitious
narrative from the early rumblings of secession to the dark years
of Reconstruction. Richly detailed and wildly inventive, its
stories propel the reader to all manner of unlikely vantages as
only the graphic form can: from the malaria-filled gut of a
mosquito to the faded ink of a soldier's pen, and from the barren
farms of the home front to the front lines of an infantry
charge.
Beautiful, uncompromising, poignant, and utterly original, "Battle
Lines" is a daring vision of the war that nearly tore America
apart.
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