Book: "Everything about the landing" by Claude QUETEL

Available in French only

ISBN : 9782815104876

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"By proof of its importance in the history of the Second World War but also in the memories, it suffices today to say" The Landing "to evoke both June 6, 1944-the famous D-DAY-and the battle of Normandy which followed, with its almost a hundred days of hard fighting.

This book is first and foremost the clear and living story of this complex succession of battles which have only just begun with D-Day. Many supervisors sometimes work to give the floor to witnesses, soldiers and civilians, sometimes to explain the military equipment.

All about disembarkationAlso justifies the title by putting D-Day in the context of the Second World War, by evoking the landings which preceded, by undermining the role of logistics-key word of the D-Day landings-, by describing the lives of the soldiers, those of the civilians. An important place, finally, is reserved for memory, its cemeteries, its sites and its museums, its great birthdays, its current challenges, in particular in terms of "memory tourism."