The Battle of Gettysburg: Spilled Blood On Sacred Ground (Graphic Battles of the Civil War)
Grade 4-6–Both of these engaging and well-organized accounts will be useful for assignments. Panels cut cinematically between the Union and Confederate armies as each side's soldiers strategize and fight. InGettysburg, speech balloons in blue type indicate dialogue that was actually spoken, making the past immediate: It's murder, but it's the order, says a Union colonel before leading his last charge. While neither book's illustrations are especially graphic, the art inGettysburgis more detailed and expressive than that inAntietam, which is slightly stiff. An introduction and an Aftermath bookend the stories with historical background, photographs, and a map of troop movements. A table of contents, an introduction to each battle's key commanders, a list of related organizations and books, and a link to a list of Web sites that is updated regularly are appended. Comics fans may not seek out these books, but students using them for research should be pleasantly surprised to find them so interesting.–Lisa Goldstein, Brooklyn Public Library, NYCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.