D-Day / Rick Atkinson with Kate Waters ; adapted from The guns at last light.
Atkinson, Rick, author.; Waters, Kate, author.; Adapation of (work): Atkinson, Rick. Guns at last light.
2014
D756.5.N6 A85 2014 (Mapit)
On loan from Children's Materials Collection, due 31. Aug 2024

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Title D-Day / Rick Atkinson with Kate Waters ; adapted from The guns at last light.
Author Atkinson, Rick, author.
Variant Title Subtitle from dust jacket: Invasion of Normandy, 1944
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9781627791113 (hardcover)
1627791116 (hardcover)
9781627791120 (ebook)
1627791124 (e-book)
Published New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
Language English
Description xviii, 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Call Number D756.5.N6 A85 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.54/21421
Summary 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.
Note "Based on the book The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson, published by Henry Holt and Company, LLC"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (page 196) and index.
Added Author Waters, Kate, author.
Adapation of (work): Atkinson, Rick. Guns at last light.
Series Atkinson, Rick. Our world at war, WWII.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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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.

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