Purple Hearts

the long version

**1944, WORLD WAR II.** Courage, sacrifice, and fear have led Rio, Frangie, and Rainy through front line battles in North Africa and Sicily, and their missions are not over. These soldiers and thousands of Allies must fight their deadliest battle yet--for their country and their lives--as they descend into the freezing water and onto the treacherous sands of Omaha Beach. It is June 6, 1944. D-day has arrived. None of these women are the same naive recruits they were when the war started. They are Silver Star recipients and battle-hardened now as they traverse the dangerous bocage country and travel through the forests of Hurtgen and the Eifel. Others look to them for guidance and confidence, but this is a war that will leave sixty million dead. Flesh will turn to charcoal. Piles will be made of torn limbs. The women must find a way to lead through the devastating concentration camps of Buchenwald and Dachau while holding on to their own last shreds of belief in humanity. In this powerful conclusion to the Front Lines series, *New York Times* bestselling author Michael Grant vividly evokes the gritty, brutal truth of World War II: War is hell. This description comes from the publisher. *Purple Hearts* is the third book in the Front Lines trilogy, the first of which is *Front Lines*.