HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Gratz’s best-selling historical fiction doesn’t stay on the shelf long expect the same from his latest. This is only one element of dramatic tension that keeps the pages of this novel’s suspenseful account turning. Now Dee is determined to return to Germany to defeat Hitler. Though they are best friends, Dee keeps a closely guarded secret from his Jewish comrade: he is a German whose parents are political refugees. Noting that D-Day itself was a tremendous victory for the Allies, Gratz acknowledges the taking of Omaha Beach was a near disaster, which saw some 4,500 Allied deaths. Gratz does a brilliant job of bringing the invasion to visceral life. The last two are in the front line of the Omaha Beach invasion, experiencing firsthand the hell that was D-Day. Alan Gratz Resist: A Story of D-Day Kindle Edition by Alan Gratz (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 351 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 2.51 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. They are 11-year-old Samira, a French Algerian whose mother is a spy Canadian paratrooper James McKay British tank driver Bill Richards African American medic Henry Allen 13-year-old Monique Marchand war correspondent Dorothy Powell and, most significantly, 16-year-old Dee Carpenter and his best friend, Sid Jacobstein.
Gratz’s ( Grenade, 2018) latest novel memorably tells the story of D-Day, the Allied invasion of France, through the eyes of a disparate cast of characters, all of whom are de facto allies.
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