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.
