Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day: The Allied Invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe

by Wayne Vansant

Overview

The acclaimed author and illustrator presents a full-color, vividly detailed graphic history of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France.

The invasion of Europe was the most anticipated event of WWII. Yet careful planning insured that the Nazis were taken by surprise when Allied forces landed in Normandy. The success of Operation Overlord was the beginning of the end for Hitler’s mad ambitions.

In this powerful graphic history, Wayne Vansant tells the intricate story of the planning and execution of Operation Overlord from the invasion of five D-Day beaches (Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword) on June 6, 1944, to the liberation of Paris on August 25, 1944.

In between, Vansant paints a portrait of the campaign’s vicious and unforgiving fighting, including the Allies’ capture of Cherbourg, the deadly battles in hedgerow country, the Allied struggle for Caen, the breakout of Patton’s Third Army, and the eventual defeat of Axis forces in the Falaise Pocket.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610586658
Publisher:	Quarto Publishing Group USA
Publication date:	07/27/2022
Series:	Zenith Graphic Histories
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	609
Sales rank:	804,657
File size:	65 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Writer and artist Wayne Vansant was the primary artist for Marvel's The 'Nam for more than five years. Since then, he has written and illustrated many historically accurate graphic histories, such as The Hammer and the Anvil; The Vietnam War: A Graphic History; Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day, The Allied Invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe (Zenith Press, 2012); Gettysburg: The Graphic History of America's Most Famous Battle and the Turning Point of the Civil War (Zenith Press, 2013); Grant vs. Lee: The Graphic History of the Civil War's Greatest Rivals During the Last Year of the War (Zenith Press, 2013); Bombing Nazi Germany: The Graphic History of the Allied Air Campaign That Defeated Hitler in World War II (Zenith Press, 2013); and The Red Baron: The Graphic History of Richthofen's Flying Circus and the Air War in WWI (Zenith Press, 2014). He is currently working on The Battle of the Bulge: A Graphic History of Allied Victory in the Ardennes, 1944-1945 (Zenith Press, 2014) for the 70th anniversary of the battle in December 2014.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6
Chapter 1 Second Front Now!
Chapter 2 How Peaceful the Land Looked
Chapter 3 Hitting the Beaches
Chapter 4 Bloody Omaha
Chapter 5 The Skin of Their Teeth
Chapter 6 The Tigers of Villers-Bocage
Chapter 7 Death in the Hedgerows
Chapter 8 The Devil’s Children
Chapter 9 The Capital of Ruins
Chapter 10 Blood & Thunder
Chapter 11 The Cobra Strikes!
Chapter 12 “Come and Get Us!”
Chapter 13 Third Army Rampage
Chapter 14 The Killing Ground
Chapter 15 “Aux Barricades!”

Editorial Reviews

"Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day; The Allied Invasion of Fortress Europe, adopts the comic-book, graphic-novel style of illustrated panels accompanied by a bit of text to tell the story of the June 6, 1944, invasion of France through the August 25 entry into Paris. Unlike the mostly-for-entertainment comics of my childhood, this book gives an accurate overview of the events it relates and provides a surprising amount of detail, given its limited-text, just-over-100-pages format. It isn't just for younger readers, either, although it would serve as a great introduction to the Normandy campaign for pre-teens and teens. Wayne Vansant found the right mix of text and illustration in creating this book. The short sentence structure imposed by the graphic novel format adds to the story, giving an enhanced sense of action and urgency. It's a good, short, informative read for adults and an excellent tool for introducing younger readers to the story of D-Day. Highly recommended." - ArmChairGeneral.com

"What a glorious book, vivid, accurate, utterly bewitching." - Alex Kershaw, bestselling author of The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice

"I am very pleased to have discovered a new history graphic novel series, beginning with Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day: The Allied Invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe which is both written and illustrated by Wayne Vansant. Other books will follow, on subjects including Gettysburg, Civil War Generals Grant and Lee, and the Bombing of Nazi Germany. The series is aimed at teen readers, but I find it's great for adults interested in experiencing history through the graphic novel medium. I recommend this book and the forthcoming books in the series to anyone who enjoys graphic novels and/or history, and for those older kids in your life who are having a hard time getting into history. We will definitely be using it for our homeschooling curriculum when my kids are a bit older." - WIRED.com Geek Dad

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