D-Day: The Liberation of Europe Begins

by Doug Murray, Anthony Williams (Illustrator)

The largest seaborne invasion in history began on June 6, 1944, with overnight parachute and glider landings, massive air attacks and naval bombardments, and an early morning amphibious assault on the beaches of Normandy, France. For two months the battle raged through France, final resulting in the liberation of Paris in August, as Allied forces put yet another nail into the coffin of Nazi Germany’s fate.

Genres: Graphic Novels

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Jurij Fedorov · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's very cool with clear illustrations of the landing and what happened. But then not really as it's extremely short. Even shorter than what you'd expect from a short overview. We just move too fast as with this many landings there are 1000 details to explain and we only hear 40. Still, it's a fine intro and gives you a clear image. I kinda understand the landing now. At least the soldiers landing.

We need this, but then 1000 pages. Or maybe 200 pages with clear details and all weapons presented. Way more maps too to show us where what is happening. I'd recommend this for kids and newcomers. And it's fun and action packed read anyhow. But you can just watch a short video and get this info that way. The comic book doesn't really use the format properly to show more. There is not creativity and no blueprints. Blueprints are exactly what comic books need to do. Stop up and give us dull details videos can't give us.

I am eager to find something deeper as this is fascinating. I've read another book about D-Day too and that one had issues too. It's just a huge topic and incredibly important so please give me something a few historians worked on together for a few years not a comic book some guy wrote in months.

[Annie Flanders · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a very interesting read. I really liked the format of this small graphic novel.

I especially liked the Fighting Back section at the beginning of the book.

I do hope that the young man this is going to will equally like it.

[Sam Raymond · Rating 4 out of 5]

Real good.

[Sameem Khwaja · Rating 3 out of 5]

D-Day: The lIberation of Europe Begins, is a non fiction, graphic novel that takes place during world war 2. The book starts in northern Africa and Italy; where Germany is preparing for an attack. This attack will help Germany advance in the war and block USA's trading. As America hears of this, they suddenly plan and start an invasion on Italy and northern Africa. The book on goes on the vicious and brutal war. The images are well drawn and give the story a faster slow pace. I myself though thought the book was way to informative and fact based. The constant income of information made me want to stop reading the book and go to sleep. I think the book would have been better if it was at the pov of an american solider in the invasion. I would not recommend this book to anyone who doesn't like heavy informational books. But I would recommend this book to history classes, as the pictures and illustrations are very engaging.

[2 Colin B · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a graphic novel about D-Day and what had happened. I liked it a lot because it was different then anything I've read before and I learned a lot by reading it. It could have been a little longer and they could have explained everything a little better, but overall I thought it was a great book. I would recommend it to anyone who likes history or non-fiction graphic novels because it is a great book compared to others in those genres.

[Duane · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although this is intended as a graphic novel, it does have some regular book styling in it. I found it to be vague in information so I can't say I really enjoyed it. For someone who doesn't enjoy reading, I guess this would be a good start. I just didn't enjoy this book as much as I thought I would.

[Courtney Burns · Rating 2 out of 5]

More history than story--very little dialogue.

[Sara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not terrific, but having a clear picture of Eisenhower @ Normandy in my head saved my history final!

[Matthew · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a decent overview of the events. It would be a good supplement to the less-than-adequate coverage of the Second World War found in textbooks.

[Chewie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of my favorite graphic novels of WWII.