Six Days covers the deadly World War II battle that took place in the small village of Graignes, France, after 182 members of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division were dropped 18 miles off target on D-Day. Despite the risk, the villagers of Graignes took in the misplaced paratroopers, but they were discovered by the German militia. The French and Americans soon found themselves trying to fend off 2,000 enemy combatants.
Maurer is an award winning journalist best known for the New York Times bestseller No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden. He has been embedded with Special Forces troops in Afghanistan and with U.S. forces in other locations around the world. Writer of The Surrogates, Green Lantern, X-O Manowar (see “'X-O Manowar Compendium One'”), and Hawkman, Venditti’s own uncle fought in the Battle of Graignes, and he plays a key role in the story.
