Chateau de Sully, near Bayeux, June 1944 by Anthony Gross First published here 2017 Although photographs remember a moment, an event, war artists see the emotion in a war; how people live within it, the minutiae of daily life as they prepare, wait, fight, suffer and celebrate. Faced with the vastness of
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News from Carentan, Tilly & Caen: Snapshot from a war, 14 June 1944
First published here 2017 During the Second World War, news, particularly good news was shared quickly across the Allied world. While each battle has been studied in detail by historians over the years, at the time newspapers reported them hurriedly as steps towards freedom. Reading those old papers today we are for
A modest WW2 Resistance hero and the V-1 flying bomb, at Val Ygot
First published here 2018 In the summer of 1943, a middle aged Frenchman in blue overalls pushed a wheelbarrow past German sentries into a construction site at Bonnetot, between Dieppe and Rouen in Normandy. The man, Michel Hollard, did not look extraordinary but he was. Audacious and brave, Michel’s actions that day
D-Day, Drop Zone C and remarkable bravery at Sainte-Marie-du-Mont
A tiny duchess, happy hermits & Old Hickory bravery at Hill 314, in Mortain
First published October 11, 2014 A rich little girl of 8 paid for the first recorded chapel on top of Mortain’s tiny mountain, Montjoie. There have been rumours of religious constructions here since the pagans worshipped Jupiter, but for firm dates this one, 24 July 1613, can be relied upon. Other big