The Bluecoats - Volume 10 - The Blues in black and white

Author: Raoul Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849186928
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
After another long day of charging, Blutch and Chesterfield make the acquaintance of Matthew Brady, a professional photographer dispatched by President Lincoln to document the ongoing historic struggle. Photography, still a new invention, together with Brady’s talent for capturing the moment, are met with great enthusiasm by both the rank and file and the top brass. Inevitably, it’s not long before Blutch and Chesterfield are ordered to act as the artist’s protective detail – much to the sergeant’s disgust...

The Bluecoats - Sallie - Volume 16

Author: Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1800448333
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
A quiet day in the Union Army ... Soldiers are resting, Blutch and Chesterfield are arguing, and the generals are plotting strategy. Things change suddenly with the arrival of a new regiment, sent as reinforcements to counter the imminent arrival of the Confederates. With them is a young dog, Sallie, who’s been on every battlefield with her uniformed masters, and who takes an immediate liking to Chesterfield, to the point that she accompanies him on a dangerous scouting mission ...

The Bluecoats - Volume 13 - Something borrowed, something blue

Author: Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849186073
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
War rages on, and the wounded pile up – including Blutch, courtesy of Confederate artillery. The Union Army doctors are swamped. In order to address his shortage of healers, General Alexander brings in a quartet of female nurses. But while he did also recruit a foul- tempered ‘matron’ of sorts to discourage anyone more interested in flirting than doing their duty, he may not have planned for the possibility of one of the nurses falling for a certain small, unruly, bald corporal ...

The Bluecoats - Volume 15 - Bull Run

Author: Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1800449186
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
A new recruit makes the mistake of asking Blutch to tell him about the infamous battle of Bull Run ... in public! The hostility of the other Union soldiers is immediate, yet Blutch eventually explains the reason for it. That battle, the first major one of the war, which had seemed to the North like such an inevitable victory that masses of civilians had gone to watch it as spectators, ended in a complete rout. And Blutch and Chesterfield were there ...

The Bluecoats - Volume 12 - The David

Author: Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849187665
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
Even as the sea blockade by the Union Navy slowly strangles the South, the picket ships begin to mysteriously blow up one after another. Lincoln, worried that the war could stretch on too long if the Rebels are resupplied, orders that the Confederates’ secret weapon be identified. That means sending spies to Charleston, though, in the heart of the enemy’s territory. And who will be the two unlucky fools the brass entrusts with such a dangerous mission ... ?

The Bluecoats - Volume 9 - El Padre

Author: Raoul Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1849187215
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 49

Book Description
Sent to scout the enemy, Blutch and Chesterfield are chased by a Confederate patrol and forced to cross the Rio Grande to safety. But that safety is relative: stuck between Apache bandits and Mexican outlaws, our two Bluecoats have no choice but to disguise themselves as civilians – Blutch as a peasant, Chesterfield as a monk. But the nearby village is eagerly awaiting its new ‘padre’, and the villagers aren’t fooled by the deception...

The Bluecoats - Volume 14 - The Dirty Five

Author: Cauvin
Publisher: Cinebook
ISBN: 1800449704
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 50

Book Description
After a series of bloody battles, the 22nd Cavalry is once again depleted. Sent on a recruiting drive, Chesterfield meets only failure – between the reputation of their unit and Blutch’s constant sabotage efforts, finding volunteers is almost impossible. Until fate brings them to a penitentiary where some very unsavoury characters are about to hang. Offered a choice, the criminals will pick the uniform over the noose, but can they be controlled?

Rumberley

Author: Raoul Cauvin
Publisher: 9th Cinebook
ISBN: 9781849181082
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Left behind with the wounded, Blutch and Chesterfield must defend their fellow Union soldiers against Southern troops ... and civilians! After an even bloodier battle than usual, the Union Army is out of men. But so are the Confederates, and General Alexander decides to retreat and come back with reinforcements before the enemy can do the same. To move faster, he leaves his wounded--including Stark and Chesterfield--behind in the nearby town of Rumberley, in the care of its inhabitants and Corporal Blutch. But Rumberley's a Rebel village ..."--P [4] of cover.

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Languages : en
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Reservation Blues

Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480457175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
DIVDIVWinner of the American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize, Sherman Alexie’s brilliant first novel tells a powerful tale of Indians, rock ’n’ roll, and redemption/div Coyote Springs is the only all-Indian rock band in Washington State—and the entire rest of the world. Thomas Builds-the-Fire takes vocals and bass guitar, Victor Joseph hits lead guitar, and Junior Polatkin rounds off the sound on drums. Backup vocals come from sisters Chess and Checkers Warm Water. The band sings its own brand of the blues, full of poverty, pain, and loss—but also joy and laughter.DIV It all started one day when legendary bluesman Robert Johnson showed up on the Spokane Indian Reservation with a magical guitar, leaving it on the floor of Thomas Builds-the-Fire’s van after setting off to climb Wellpinit Mountain in search of Big Mom./divDIV In Reservation Blues, National Book Award winner Alexie vaults with ease from comedy to tragedy and back in a tour-de-force outing powered by a collision of cultures: Delta blues and Indian rock. DIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author’s personal collection./div/divDIV/div/div