New Graphic Novel TERRORIST is Launched

By: Apr. 16, 2015
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From Graphic Universe, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, comes "Terrorist: Gavrilo Princip, the Assassin Who Ignited World War I," a new graphic novel that imagines the life of one of history's most infamous assassins. Combining historical sources with educated guesses, author and illustrator Henrik Rehr has created an edgy, gripping portrayal of radicalization that resonates both in today's world and in Princip's world.

This much we know: On June 28, 1914, a young man stood on a street corner in Sarajevo, aimed a pistol into a stalled car carrying the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and pulled the trigger. Within minutes the archduke was dead, and Europe would not know peace again for five years. More than 16 million people would die in the fighting that came to be known as World War I.

Little else is known about the young man named Gavrilo Princip. How could a poor student from a tiny Serbian village turn the wheel of history and alter the face of a continent for generations? Henrik Rehr's dark and riveting graphic novel fills the gaps in the historical record and imagines in insightful detail the events that led a boy from Oblej to become history's most significant terrorist.

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About the Author
Henrik Rehr has been a cartoonist for more than thirty years. He was born in Denmark and lives with his family in New York City.

About the Publisher
Graphic Universe, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, creates high-interest fiction and nonfiction titles through supreme graphic novel artwork and story lines created by experienced artists of this genre.

PUBLICATION DATE:
April 2015

HC: 978-1-4677-7279-2
PB: 978-1-4677-7284-6
$33.32, Hardcover, Jacketed
$11.99, Paperback
eBooks Also Available
Ages 13-18
232 Pages ? 7 11/16 x 10 7/16

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