What Was D-Day?

by Patricia Brennan Demuth, Who HQ, David Grayson Kenyon (Illustrator)

Overview

In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, an armada of 7,000 ships carrying 160,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Up until then the Allied forces had suffered serious defeats, yet D -Day, as the invasion was called, spelled the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany and the Third Reich. Readers will dive into the heart of the action and discover how it was planned and carried out and how it overwhelmed the Germans who had been tricked into thinking the attack would take place elsewhere. D-Day was a major turning point in World War II and hailed as one of the greatest military attacks of all time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780448484075
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	04/21/2015
Series:	What Was? Series
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	45,934
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.30(d)
Lexile:	840L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Patricia Brennan Demuth is the author of Who Was Bill Gates?, What Was Ellis Island?, and What Was Pearl Harbor?

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