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D-Day : adapted from The Guns at Last Light / Rick Atkinson with Kate Waters.

by Atkinson, Rick.

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Henry Holt and Company, c2014.

940.5421421 A877d

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy -- Juvenile literature.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile literature.

Operation Overlord -- Juvenile literature.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Juvenile literature.

9781627791113 (hrd)

xviii, 202 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm.

"Based on the book The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson, published by Henry Holt and Company, LLC"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 195) and index.

List of maps. Assault on Normandy, June 1944 ; Final Overlord plan, June 6, 1944 -- Map legend -- Allied countries and chain of command -- Axis countries and chain of command -- World War II timeline -- Key players -- A note to readers -- The plan -- The invasion -- Epilogue: The days that followed -- The United States declaration of war on Germany -- The five greatest tanks of the war -- The largest battleships of the war -- The most effective bombers of the war -- Weapons carried by U.S., U.K., Canadian, and German ground troops -- Carrier pigeons -- Operation Fortitude: the inflatable army -- Caring for the wounded -- Clothing and equipment issued to a new GI in 1943 -- Monthly pay for an American GI in 1940 -- What they carried -- U.S. Airborne divisions -- What they carried -- U.S. ground assault troops -- K Rations: food on the go for American troops -- Numbers tell part of the story -- Operation Overlord timeline.

Presents a young reader's adaptation of "The Guns at Last Light," tracing the Battle of Normandy and the Allied liberation of Western Europe through the end of World War II.

Atkinson, Rick. Guns at last light.

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