Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War

By Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809094746
• ISBN13: 9780809094745
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.2" x 8.1"