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Operation Overlord

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This stunning graphic novel tell 4 extraordinary tales of heroism set during the World War II Normandy landings on D-Day, June 6th 1944

The biggest military operation of the Second World War.

6th June 1944 – D-Day, the allies launch a great offensive in Normandy in order to definitively rid Europe of the Nazi terror. The strategic and human scale of the operation, led by General Eisenhower, is unrivalled. No less than 160,000 men will be parachuted and land on five beaches in the northern France.

Thus begins Operation Overlord

192 pages, Paperback

Published November 12, 2019

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About the author

Dès l’enfance, Michaël Le Galli se passionne pour la bande dessinée. Abonné au journal Tintin, puis lecteur assidu des aventures d’Hugo Pratt, il devient à l’adolescence l’un des responsables d’une bédéthèque. Devenu étudiant, c’est naturellement au neuvième art qu’il consacre ses recherches universitaires. Il rencontre alors deux scénaristes, Dieter puis David Chauvel, qui l’incitent à devenir scénariste. Son premier album sort en 2003, il n’a depuis cessé de publier des albums chez différents éditeurs.

Michaël Le Galli est resté très sensible au fonctionnement et à l’évolution de notre société. Que ce soit par la fiction - dérives sectaires dans Les Cercles d’Akamoth (Delcourt), traitement de la folie dans Les Démons de Marie (Carabas) ou Insane (Casterman), Enfants-soldats, biopiraterie et pollution de la biosphère dans WATCH (Delcourt), holocauste des Roms dans Batchalo (Delcourt) - ou par le documentaire - traitement actuel de l’immigration dans Paroles sans Papiers (Delcourt) et avenir de l’alimentation humaine dans La Guerre des OGM (Delcourt) - il tente par ses livres d’interpeller les lecteurs sur la réalité et les dérives du monde qui nous entoure.

Partant aussi du principe établi que la connaissance du passé est nécessaire à la compréhension du présent et à la détermination de l’avenir, Michaël Le Galli est fasciné par l’Histoire en général, et par ceux qui la font en particulier. Toutes les périodes l’intéressent, de l’Histoire antique avec Sept Guerrières (Delcourt) ou l’Epopée Alexandre (Glénat), la période médiévale avec Margot-Saint Benoît (Vents d’Ouest) ou l’époque contemporaine avec Overlord (Glénat) ou Les Damnés de Paris (Vents d’Ouest).

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1,124 reviews43 followers
January 25, 2020
(3,4 for the chaos of war in the chaos of storytelling)
WW2, Day-D, what a famous historic event. Massive war operation, heroic and terrible times on the battlegrounds all over Normandy. And with his comic, we can peak into it.
I must say, I like the art, a "classic Europe style". The scenes look nice, the fighting and drama are there depicted almost cinematically. The scenes are great, but the whole story is a mess. It felt like someone did the whole comics and then the wind took all the pages and someone else hastily tried to put them in order (and failed). I'm not able to retell the story as a whole (and I'm not sure if there is a whole story). The art is nice, but it's not helping in means of characters. Sometimes it's not easy to distinguish characters apart. That only supports disorientation in the story. In the end, I caught myself to enjoying the scenes, but not the story. For WW2 fans it's maybe worth a try, the art is nice but overall the comic book in nothing special.
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1,583 reviews73 followers
September 5, 2021
Good art, interesting historical facts, but only the second tome is readable. Beyond average writing, fully chaotic...
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2,587 reviews75 followers
December 15, 2019
Quatro histórias sobre o Dia D, onde acompanhamos personagens que são mergulhadas nos momentos-chave da operação. Pára-quedistas que saltam sobre a Normandia na madrugada do Dia D, soldados que desembarcam nas primeiras levas a atingir as praias. Que vêem os seus companheiros a morrer debaixo do fogo inimigo, pensando sempre que foi por um acaso que foram estes e não eles. No meio do panorama geral, as pequenas histórias de cada soldado, mostrando que os grandes momentos históricos também são feitos das histórias das pequenas pessoas.

A série é fiel e com rigor histórico, representando bem o sucedido no dia D. Não há patriotismos exacerbados ou foco em feitos grandiosos. O estilo gráfico é competente, sem ser espetacular, mas faz o serviço. Uma série fiel à história, que nos mergulha num dos momentos pivot da II Guerra.
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