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Victor Dowd and the World War II Ghost Army

Victor Dowd and the World War II Ghost Army - Spy on History

Hardback (23 Jan 2018)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Your Mission: Find Victor's missing sketchbook using spycraft tools to uncover hidden codes! It's a true story of deception: Meet the top-secret Ghost Army, a group of artists and sound engineers trained to fake out the Germans in World War II with inflatable rubber tanks and loudspeakers broadcasting the sound of marching troops. And meet real-life Sergeant Victor Dowd, who served in the fight for Normandy, through France, and across the Rhine.It's a mystery to solve: There are clues embedded in the story's text and illustrations, and Spycraft materials come in an envelope at the beginning of the book. Now put on your own spy thinking cap and find out what happened to Victor Dowd's missing sketchbook.

About the Publisher

Workman Children's

Little, Brown is the literary hardback imprint that feeds into our Abacus paperback list. We publish across a wide range of areas, including fiction, history, memoir, science and travel, but within this diverse list the vast majority of books have in common a strong narrative and a distinctive voice.

Book information

ISBN: 9780761193265
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Workman Children's
Pub date:
DEWEY: 940.548673
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 96
Weight: 284g
Height: 219mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 13mm