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As a good drawing is often better than a thousand explanations, what could be better than a Comic Strip to tell the tale of Operation Overlord and ...

Why use an artificial port ? How they were made and assembled, risks and chances, questions and answers to determine and explain this titanesque en...

When he landed in Normandy on June 7, 1944, Ernie Pyle was the best (Pulitzer Prize) and most popular American war correspondent. Pyle owes this po...

On the night of the 31st of December 1943, two British commandos successfully collected a few samples of sand and peat under the very nose of the G...

In 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, raised an army to invade England and to seize the throne. Maixent, a young boy from a poor family, became the u...

The use of images is a device used by war correspondents to recall the actions of the armed forces of their countries. This book looks back to June...

The Normandy Landings were the first operations of the Allied Powers' invasion of Normandy, also known as Operation Neptune and Operation Overlord,...

Having become king of England at the battle of Hastings in 1066, William of Normandy would go on to found a genuine empire. His reign lasted 21 yea...

June 6, 1944: a date forever etched in history. With the landing of allied troops on the Normandy coast, so began one of the major confrontations o...

The Atlantikwall (Atlantic wall) was an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by the German Third Reich in 1942 until 1944 during World ...

The artificial port of Arromanches, codename Mulberry B, was a great British invention designed to bring to Normandy the equipment required by the ...

During World War Two Canada paid a heavy price for its part in the liberation of Europe. In August 1942, due to poor planning, the attack on Dieppe...

In Europe, the Allied forces are preparing for the invasion and artists will be needed to immortalise the event. To prove his worth to his parents,...

The date of June 6th 194 is fast approaching. In Europe, a young German and a young American are writing to their mothers. Each in his own way is p...

Normandy, North, South, East and West, has numerous war cemeteries, mostly from World War Two but also from World War One. The coastline of western...

Since 1944, the word Omaha has been synonymous with the heavy price paid by the American Armed Forces to break through the wall of the Nazis Fortre...

June 6, 1944 minutes after midnight, silent silhouettes fly through the clouds and veer over from l'Orne, north of Caen. At more than 150 km / h, t...

This book containing more than 200 photographs and many testimonials will take you back to the heart of the furious battles by the American paratro...

1943, on a farm in Arkansas, two brothers, Eddy and Johnny Collins, receive their mobilization letter: one will disembark at Omaha Beach while th...

In French and english.Sword was the easternmost British beach of the landings on June 6th 1944. Sword, symbol of justice, was also the emblem of Se...

Sword, commonly known as Sword Beach, was the code name given to one of the five main landing areas along the Normandy coast during the initial ass...

Duke William of Normandy (1027-1087) is best known for his conquest of England but his eventful and chaotic youth is often forgotten. William inher...

The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the most important works of art in the world. Even without visiting the tapestry itself in the museum dedicated to it...

The Bayeux Tapestry is a fine 11th century master-piece which has proved of exceptional documentary value towards our current knowledge of the peri...