sylvia liber, Life of Max (PEOPLE 2024)

After parachuting out of a burning Lancaster bomber and landing in France in the wake of D-Day, 19-year-old Max Barry planned to hide out until the Allies broke through German lines and he could return to England. But it would be almost a year of hardship before he found himself on safe soil.

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