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Slapton Sands! An English beach of sinister memory for all those who, as the captain Schroeder, in April, 1944, had participated in the operation Tiger, the tragic rehearsal of the landing in Normandy.

There, at about forty meters high and on a tray of some hundred meters wide, extends a fortress even more formidable than those of Pevensey and Hastings. It is the army of king Harold of England, wall of thousands of shields arranged in several rows. Raised on his horse, our Duke Guillaume raises his stick of command. " Diex ouch! " He exclaims.

June 6th, 1944, Norman beaches situated between Ouistreham and Sainte-Marie-du- Mount entered the history books of the humanity under their respective code name: Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah Beach.

Julie was not able to refrain from shivering fi xant the horizon there. Spectres, which she had thought of exorcising by coming here, were back. More present than never ... Of the construction of the artifi port(bearing) sky of Arromanches in the treason of a network of local resistance, find the ghosts who haunt today still Port(Bearing) Winston.

Steve who had to be the first one to cross(exceed) the door of C-47 felt(smelt) his(her) heart pounding. This time, it was not any more necessary question to put off(move back). - Go! Made the largueur by typing him(her) the shoulder. - Geronimo! Barrow exclaimed by diving into the dark night space.

"I William ... Legendary figure of both Normandy and England, direct ascendant of the present day royal family of the United Kingdom, Duke of Normandy and King of England, that's who I am. Yet my life began as a young orphan, a bastard who fought fiercely to survive. I lived there 1,000 years ago, but it was just like yesterday... "

A guide to Eisenhower from childhood to his time in the White House.

Tells the story of 50 world changing discoveries and technological advances made during World War II, particularly for Operation Overlord.

1914... The most terrible and bloody of the conflicts of history comes from start. It will result in the death of more than 18 million soldiers. While still a child, Odysseus sees his father and his brother leave his luminous scrubland to join the land dark and stained by the war in eastern France. A conflict that was meant to be short and that will last more than four years, stealing the boy's childhood to make him a fighter, ready to fall on the field of honor for his homeland.

This book explores the famous Ardenne campaign of 1944-1945. This guide presents the battles through the perspective of the combatants, showing the human experience of those who struggled to stay alive during this terrible winter.

The battle of Omaha occupies a prevalent place in our collective memory due to the events of June 6, 1944. The beach code-named Utah has attracted less attention. Wrongly. The scale of the losses alone demonstrates that the Battle of Utah deserves to be investigated in a new light.

The First World War was as much a ordeal for women as it was for men. Women made themselves indispensable, and as a result, they asserted themselves more in society, taking a decisive step towards their emancipation. It became clear that nothing would ever be the same again.

For thousands of years, men have dragged animals onto the battlefield. The Great War was no exception. Even though modernity was on the move, it could not free itself from the animal world. The story of the millions of animals sacrificed in the war reveals the stark reality of the conflict.

"So it was in the Thirties that numerous commodities, appliances and devices taken for granted today were discovered : antibiotics, sulphonamides, radar, turbo-jets, synthetic rubber, mineral oils, radiotelephony, and artificial intelligence... but only the outbreak of the Second World War could give rise to their development and industrial use.

This book tells the story of an outstanding man, intelligent and determined, who conceived and carried out the most formidable military expedition of his time.

That they were unique or on the contrary produced in millions of copies, hundred objects presented within the framework of this work have this in common that they form the weft of one Major episode of the Second World War, the Battle of Normandy. If all the objects selected in these pages turn out "unknown persons", none is nevertheless harmless.

Azeville is a town populated township of Montebourg hundred and fifteen people at the beginning of the Second World War. His face is that of an unchanging town, built in the eighteenth century, backed by its church and bell gable. The population lives from agriculture and livestock. Between Azeville suddenly in history begins in March 1942 when the construction of a battery in the perfect site, according to the German military authorities to defend the east coast of the Cotentin. This irruption of world history in the heart of the Bocage shows in Normandy and France that of the Organisation Todt in charge of the building the Atlantic Wall. For over two years, the same garrison of one hundred and seventy soldiers, coexists with Azevillais to serve this fortified place archetype of modern war, the concrete, built to an industrial model by three hundred prisoners of the German Reich. Starting from unpublished archives, this book helps to explain this monumental construction of coastal defense, a little-known fortified heritage which has structured landscapes, and governs the relationship between the military and civilians, foreign and local.

My name is William Bishop. I belong to the US 1st Infantry Division, the famous Big Red One. Today is the 6th of June 1944 and, in a few minutes, I'll be landing on Omaha Beach, in the Easy Red sector. A beach that will go down in History as Bloody Omaha... This is my story...

- Marcel Ouimet from Radio Canada here. I am with men from the Regiment de La Chaudiere before a small seaside resort called Bernieres-sur-Mer.

"A small red ball that goes through the greatest of twentieth century tragedies to tell us of its experience... Is that so impossible? And yet... Sam, a small boy who lived happily with his father Joshua and his mother Sarah, was given that very ball for his birthday and it became his best friend. Then catastrophe struck: the Vel d'Hiv Roundup.

A mysterious little character can be seen on scene 10 of the famous Bayeux Tapestry. His name is Turold. In this activity booklet, Turold tells you the same story as the one related on the Bayeux Tapestry, from which the 12 scenes reproduced here by Gilles Pivard have been freely inspired.

During the 20th century, two generations of Canadians crossed the Atlantic to offer their support to threatened democracy in Europe, united with Britain through Commonwealth association. These soldiers distinguished themselves at Vimy during the Great War, then at Dieppe, Sicily, Normandy and later, Holland, during World War II.

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 years. Amongst his children were two kings, a Duke, an Abbess, and two Countesses.

This full color booklet tells the story of the origins of the Vikings through their assaults on Europe to the various established societies they created. There is information on Viking art, on runes on their constant quest for new territories and many other aspects of the story of this extraordinary people.

On the 6th of June 1944, after aerial and naval bombings of unparalleled violence, the allied troops boarded the barges that took them to their respective beaches where the Germans troops, entrenched behind the "Atlantic Wall", were laying in wait...Throughout the preparation of the D-day landings, and during the terrible land, sea and aerial ...

This book recalls the story of 135 Americans grouped together in a company of paratroopers of the 82nd American Airborne from their enlistment to the end of the Battle of Normandy. Throughout this book, you will discover what stirred them to enlist in this new force, yet unknown even in America : the paratroopers.

"William the Conqueror Historical Map" is available in French and English.