by Henry Brook · Usborne Publishing Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780746069998
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«True Stories of D-Day» is a historical non-fiction book by Henry Brook, published by Usborne Publishing Ltd in paperback (160 pages, in English).
It tells the real stories of the protagonists of the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944: the meteorologist who advised Eisenhower, a vanguard paratrooper, a sergeant on Omaha Beach and a member of the Resistance. Includes maps, illustrations and notes on sources and further reading.
Part of the Usborne True Stories series. 2006 edition published in association with the Imperial War Museum.
Aimed at young readers aged 8 and over who want to discover the Second World War through real adventure stories.
Henry Brooke was an Irish novelist and dramatist. He was born and raised at Rantavan House near Mullagh, a village in the far south of County Cavan in Ireland, the son of a clergyman, and he later studied law at Trinity College, Dublin, but embraced literature as a career.
