The Civil War was one of the most horrific wars in US history. Just to be convinced to read the poems of war Herman Melville Poems of war. The comic addresses the status of northerners prisoners in the camp of Andersonville, Georgia, where detainees were parked in appalling conditions, threatened with being shot like rabbits if they crossed the deadline, a line that separates them from their jailers. The story is of a young southerner, Louis Paughan and total revelation, resembling a rapture, he feels at the sight of a black prisoner majestic and taciturn. This vision will change the course of his life. In order not to spoil the reading pleasure that the discovery of history, beautifully built, in all modesty, intensity, I will not go over the plot. The writer Frederic Laurent Bollee offers us an emotional pearl footprint theatricality, mixing past and present in a clever play of reminiscences and experiences passages denouncing the ravages of racism and intolerance in all its forms. It is about the Ku Klux Klan, its relentless minions of hell .And Vengeance. This is a settlement account without pity, it is a poetic evocation of the passage of time, the passing of time irretrievably, on love. The drawings by Christian Rossi, familiar in the American West and the turbulent history of the United States, it lends its superb and glue graphics, realistic and poetic, elegant and powerful, sumptuous colors, pastel and contrasted with the almost Greek tragedy. The book ends with beautiful sketches of Rossi. A wonderful album to all points of view.
