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    Invasion
    Invasion
    Invasion
    Audiobook5 hours

    Invasion

    Written by Walter Dean Myers

    Narrated by Nick Cordero

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    About this audiobook

    Walter Dean Myers brilliantly renders the realities of World War II. Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry are on their way to an uncertain future. Their whole lives are ahead of them, yet at the same time, death's whisper is everywhere. One white, one black, these young men have nothing in common and everything in common as they approach an experience that will change them forever. It's May 1944. World War II is ramping up, and so are these young recruits, ready and eager. In small towns and big cities all over the globe, people are filled with fear. When Josiah and Marcus come together in what will be the greatest test of their lives, they learn hard lessons about race, friendship, and what it really means to fight. Set on the front lines of the Normandy invasion, this novel, rendered with heart-in-the-throat precision, is a cinematic masterpiece. Here we see the bold terror of war, and also the nuanced havoc that affects a young person's psyche while living in a barrack, not knowing if today he will end up dead or alive.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781470383053
    Invasion
    Author

    Walter Dean Myers

    Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, a three-time National Book Award Finalist, as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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    • 3/5
      Another generation of the Perry family serves his country, this time in World War II with the D-Day invasion in a segregated transportation unit. This Perry has only a peripheral role in this story told from the POV of a white infantry soldier and a friend of Perry's back in their Virginia hometown. An honest, vivid depiction of the brutalities of war.
    • 4/5
      Great war story, prequel to Fallen Angels