Book
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- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
The orphans of Normandy : a true story of World War II told through drawings by children
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2003.
Physical Description
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Summary
Relates how 100 young schoolgirls, many of them orphans, and their teachers managed to escape the chaos of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, l944, by taking shelter in an iron mine for thirty-eight days and, after being forced out by the Germans, walking for twenty-nine days to reach safety behind Allied lines.
Notes
"The illustrations are rendered in colored pencil on newsprint"--T.p. verso.