My Longest Night: A Twelve-Year-Old Heroine's Stirring Account of D-Day and After (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781611457216)

Fifty years have passed since the Normandy landing that began the liberation of France from Nazi occupation. This touching eyewitness account, told from the perspective of a twelve-year-old girl, has all the force and beauty of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl.

As the first wave of Allied paratroopers landed behind the lines in Normandy on the night of June 5, 1944, many fell into the flooded marshlands on either side of the railway line that ran between Paris and Cherbourg--virtually in the Duboscq family's backyard. Throughout that historic night, Genevi ve and her father, a hard-drinking peasant named Papa Maurice, saved numerous Americans from drowning and gave them refuge while they regrouped for what was to become one of the most heroic battles of World War II.

Author: Genevieve Duboscq
ISBN-10: 1611457211
ISBN-13: 9781611457216
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/13/2012
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d