Gr 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. In Gettysburg, 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 in Gettysburg is more detailed and expressive than that in Antietam, 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, NY Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.