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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 05/05/2015
ISBN: 9780809094745
Pages: 224
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 8.10h x 10.20w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/16/2015
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2015
Library Journal 05/15/2015 pg. 62
Booklist 05/15/2015 pg. 42
School Library Journal 08/01/2015 pg. 115