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Old 06-13-2014, 10:25 AM   #1
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Free D-Day Comic Today (2014/06/13)

Comixology's summer reading giveaway has Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe as today's freebie.

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Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe

Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in graphic novel form. The initial paratrooper assault is shown, as well as the storming of the five D-Day beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. But the story does not end there. Once the Allies got ashore, they had to stay ashore. The Germans made every effort to push them back into the sea. This book depicts such key events in the Allied liberation of Europe as:
  • Construction of the Mulberry Harbors, two giant artificial harbors built in England and floated across the English Channel so that troops, vehicles, and supplies could be offloaded across the invasion beaches.
  • The Capture of Cherbourg, the nearest French port, against a labyrinth of German pillboxes
  • The American fight through the heavy bocage (hedgerow country) to take the vital town of Saint-Lô.
  • The British-Canadian struggle for the city of Caen against the "Hitler Youth Division," made up of 23,000 seventeen- and eighteen-year-old Nazi fanatics.
  • The breakout of General Patton's Third Army and the desperate US 30th Division's defense of Mortaine.
  • The Falaise Pocket, known as the "Killing Ground, " where the remnants of two German armies were trapped and bombed and shelled into submission. The slaughter was so great that 5,000 Germans were buried in one mass grave.
  • The Liberation of Paris, led by the 2nd Free French Armored Division, which had been fighting for four long years with this goal in mind.
It's 105 pages long, and the regular retail price is listed as $19.95 (they probably sell it for less, it's listed as $9.95 on Amazon right now). I figured this would interest more people than the regular Comixology freebies, especially history buffs. I have to admit I'll probably be reading this one really soon myself.
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Old 06-13-2014, 01:11 PM   #2
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The only problem is viewing it. If you are online you can view it but if you don't have a Kindle fire or an Android app you can't download it for viewing on a device. Or so it appears.
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The only problem is viewing it. If you are online you can view it but if you don't have a Kindle fire or an Android app you can't download it for viewing on a device. Or so it appears.
They have an iOS app too for Apple devices as well, but you do have to use their app/website to read the comics. You can download it to read offline in the apps (at least for Android).
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