Paru le 01/01/1994 | Relié 82 pages
A partir de 9 ans
drawings Mister Kit | historical counsellors, Isabelle Bournier et Rémy Desquesnes
A landings on the coasts of Western Europe. This operation has to "carry" the war close to the German borders and relieve the Soviet Union, which has supported the weight of a gigantic offensive of the Nazi German armies all by itself.
For Operation Overlord, codename for the landings, to succeed, the most important air and naval fleets of all times had to be mobilized, new vehicles and arms had to be invented, artificial ports had to be made and even an undersea pipeline constructed...
But above all a breach had to be opened in the fearsome German coastal defense system - the Atlantic Wall - so as to "launch" hundreds of thousands of soldiers on D-Day.
On 6th June 1944, hope is reborn...
