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Yet the North has little choice but to maintain it ... and this is how, in July 1863 in New York City, simmering resentment turns into bloody rioting - with Blutch and Chesterfield caught in the tragic events.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43595601313970,"sku":"9781800441248","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781800441248_2c632e06-44b3-43f6-9938-1fa9799637f7.jpg?v=1786026963"},{"product_id":"9781800441521","title":"The Bluecoats Vol. 18","description":"1864. The USS Kearsarge, a Union warship, puts in at the port of Amsterdam. Its mission in Europe: to stop the predations of the Alabama, a confederate privateer that's been preying on the transatlantic trade. Aboard are Blutch and Chesterfield, threatened with a firing squad by an irascible general, and sent to lie low in the Navy by their own superiors. 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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... Age 8+","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306658509173,"sku":"9781800440890","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781800440890_87f7cdf4-ca32-4bb2-86f1-a4288a960968.jpg?v=1786026927"},{"product_id":"9781849185318","title":"The Bluecoats Vol. 13","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 that doing their duty, he may not have planned for the possibility of one of the nurses falling for a certain small, unruly, bald corporal...","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308454031733,"sku":"9781849185318","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781849185318_7731e13c-ed68-4858-8b75-3dc1f2f2dca7.jpg?v=1786029718"},{"product_id":"9781800441774","title":"The Bluecoats Vol. 19","description":"After yet another bloody battle, the Union Army organises a recruiting drive during which Blutch attempts to dissuade an obviously too young boy from signing up. To no avail, though, and before long the kid, Pucky, joins them as ... a drummer boy! While Chesterfield is tasked with looking after him, Pucky begins to practice his drumming - much to the displeasure of the troops, who are eager to get some rest before the major engagement looming on the horizon.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369192010101,"sku":"9781800441774","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781800441774_e8354b91-21a4-488b-9315-d4b7dd444152.jpg?v=1786027017"},{"product_id":"bluecoats-vol-20","title":"The Bluecoats Vol. 20","description":"After yet another deadly battle, the Union army in which Blutch and Chesterfield serve finds itself without a hospital. The dearth of doctors is widespread, though, and to give the wounded a chance at surviving, the Union has no choice but to send ... a woman: Mary Edwards Walker, a qualified and experienced doctor, yet one received with scorn and mistrust. 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