![]() ![]() If there’s any way to tell this story in a way that’s appropriate for middle-graders, Allies is it. ![]() ![]() Their story is the main plot thread weaving through the narrative, but D-Day itself is the plot, once the boys’ Higgins boat discharges them a few fatal feet short of Omaha Beach. That’s something he dares not tell his best buddy Sid Jacobstein, who has sworn to kill every German he finds. He fudged his birth certificate to get in the fight, but he fudged something else, too: his real name is Dietrich Zimmerman, and he was born in Germany. This vast company is represented by the personal stories of a Canadian paratrooper, a British tank driver, a Moroccan French partisan, and a number of American boys, beginning with sixteen-year-old “Dee” Carpenter. Operation Overlord, otherwise known as D-Day, was the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving almost 25,000 paratroopers and 160,000 soldiers from eight countries. ![]()
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