Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day
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Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in 96 full-color pages. The initial paratrooper assault is shown, as well as the storming of the five D-Day beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. But the story does not end there. Once the Allies got ashore, they had to stay ashore. The Germans made every effort to push them back into the sea.
- ISBN: 9780760343920
- Author: Wayne Vansant
- Pages: 104
- Ages: 12+
This book depicts the such key events in the Allied liberation of Europe as:
- Construction of the Mulberry Harbors, two giant artificial harbors built in England and floated across the English Channel so that troops, vehicles, and supplies could be offloaded across the invasion beaches.
- The Capture of Cherbourg, the nearest French port, against a labyrinth of Gennan pillboxes.
- The American fight through the heavy bocage (hedgerow country) to take the vital town of Saint-Lô.
- The British-Canadian struggle for the city of Caen against the “Hitler Youth Division,” made up of 23,000 seventeen- and eighteen-year-old Nazi fanatics.
- The breakout of General Patton’s Third Army and the desperate US 30th Division’s defense of Mortaine.
- The Liberation of Paris, led by the 2nd Free French Armored Division, which had been fighting for four long years with this goal in mind.
| Weight | 0.201 kg |
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| Dimensions | 23.0 × 15.1 × 0.7 cm |
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