![]() ![]() ![]() But despite his fear, Paul climbs the tree and frees the American, whose name he learns is Sergeant Victor Lopez. Paul knows that helping this man is dangerous if the Nazis catch him, especially with Nazis soldiers nearby looking for the paratrooper. ![]() Leon, being pursued and shot by Nazi soldiers for being in the resistance, and he watched in horror as his hero sank into a river.īut just as he is beginning to lose hope, it's Paul's turn to be a hero when he discovers an American paratrooper caught in a tree and injured. Later, Paul had seen his favorite teacher, Mr. ![]() After France had fallen to the Nazis in 1940, his father had been arrested and sent to a German prison camp then his best friend Gerard and his family were arrested by the Nazis because they were Jewish and had disappeared. Living there in the town of Le Roc, Paul Colbert, 11, has waited and waited for the Allied Forces to come and rescue France from the hands of the Nazis and end the war. In her latest book, Tarshis takes her readers to France's Normandy coast just before and after the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. With the same themes of courage and resilience the protagonist didn't realize they possessed, they become active participants in these events, providing the reader with an exciting fast-paced story and lots of historical background information. Lauren Tarshis's I Survived series has introduced young readers to a variety of significant, but scary events that have occurred in both recent and distant history through a young eyewitness protagonist. ![]()
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