Civilians in the Battle of Normandy
Civilians in the Battle of Normandy

Civilians in the Battle of Normandy

L20180097
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6 June 1944: war sweeps over the peaceful region of Normandy. The battle that begins with the Landings will last three months instead of the three weeks provided for in the Allies' plans.

 

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The inhabitants of Lower Normandy found themselves plunged into the midst of one of the war's major confrontations. They endured terrible aerial bombardments, artillery exchanges and strafing on the roads, which claimed the lives of 14,000 civilians.


Driven from their ruined towns, more than 100,000 men, women and children lived as refugees in the barns and stables of nearby farms; 150,000 people, forced to flee the fighting, experienced the anguish of an exodus into the unknown, along roads fraught with danger. How many others spent hours of torment huddled at the bottom of a trench, crouching in a ditch, hiding in a cellar, an underground quarry, or even the bottom of an iron mine? While military sources are plentiful, the same cannot be said for civilian accounts.


Many Normans, aware that they were living through an extraordinary event, recorded the facts in diaries, notebooks and letters; others wrote their accounts after the war. Seventy years later, this irreplaceable documentation, combined with a wealth of iconography, makes it possible to restore the little-known history of civilians in the Battle of Normandy.

Author 1
Jean Quellien
Author 2
Françoise Passera
Publication date
August 2014
Pages
256
Cover
Paperback
Language
French
Publisher
OREP

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