Freiheit!

The White Rose Graphic Novel

by Andrea Grosso Ciponte

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Pub Date Feb 16 2021 | Archive Date Jun 21 2024

Plough Publishing | Plough Publishing House

Biographies & Memoirs | Comics, Graphic Novels, Manga

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Description

The dramatic true story of a handful of students who resisted the Nazis and paid with their lives, now in a stunning graphic novel.

With an entire nation blindly following an evil leader, where did a handful of students find the courage to resist? The university students who formed the White Rose, an undercover resistance movement in Nazi Germany, knew that doing so could cost them their lives. But some things are worth dying for.

The White Rose printed and distributed leaflets to expose Nazi atrocities and wake up their fellow citizens. The Gestapo caught and executed them. Sophie Scholl was twenty-one; her brother Hans, twenty-four; Christoph Probst, twenty-three; Alexander Schmorell and Willi Graf, twenty-five.

But the White Rose was not silenced. Their heroism continues to inspire new generations of resisters. Now, for the first time, this story that has been celebrated in print and film can be experienced as a graphic novel. Italian artist Andrea Grosso Ciponte’s haunting imagery will resonate with today’s students and activists. The challenges they face may vary, but the need for young people to stand up against evil, whatever the cost, will remain.

Advance Praise

Acclaim for artist's previous book Renegade: Martin Luther, The Graphic Biography

Longtime Italian collaborators Ciponte and Palmerino present their first work in English with this earnest take on Luther’s life, wonderfully rendered through paintings and collages that dip into the biography at critical moments. YA and adult readers alike will find this work intriguing and informative. --Library Journal, Starred Review

The art … will pull in readers. At times it’s rough and jagged, at others dreamlike with biblical imagery floating around and intertwining with the dark age environment… A great addition to graphic novel collections. --School Library Journal

Captivating… Dramatic use of light in the renderings, gorgeous color, almost cinematic. Using visual quotes and metaphors drawn from great art, like Hironymous Bosch’s paintings, with their surrealistic imagery of hell, Renegade captures the psychological angst of the story. --God and Comics Podcast

Well told in dramatic, eloquent fashion. --Critical Blast

Ciponte’s painted art is lovely and thoughtful…The scenes at Wartburg Castle are wonderful, an explosion of color and impact. --Comics Bulletin

Acclaim for artist's previous book Renegade: Martin Luther, The Graphic Biography

Longtime Italian collaborators Ciponte and Palmerino present their first work in English with this earnest take on...