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Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day, The Allied Invasion of Hitler's Fortress EuropeBook Review
About the Book: 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.
Our Take: This new historical graphic novel is based on D-Day in WWII and is both written and illustrated by Wayne Vansant. Comic book fans will remember Wayne from his work on the 'Nam comic back in the day. Wayne brings his fantastic and expressive artwork to this great new graphic novel. This is a fantastic one to give to younger tweens and teens learning about WWII..it really makes it fun and easy to take-in information that is often faceless and flat to kids. This book does great job of bringing the events to life.
This book depicts the such key events in
the Allied liberation of Europe as:
1.
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.
2. The Capture of Cherbourg, the nearest French port, against a labyrinth of Gennan pillboxes.
3. The American fight through the heavy bocage (hedgerow country) to take the vital town of Saint-Lô.
4.
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.
5. The breakout of General Patton’s Third Army and the desperate US 30th Division’s defense of Mortaine.
6.
The Falaise Pocket, known as the “Killing Ground, ” where the remnants
of two German armies were trapped and bombed and shelled into
submission. The slaughter was so great that 5,000 Germans were buried in
one mass grave.
7. 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.
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