Normandy Bayeux Guided tour by Francois Gauthron

20/09/2017

http://www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk/

The entire Bayeux Tapestry and the tale it tells in quick loading, bite sized chunks. The story behind the Victorian copy of the Tapestry housed at the Museum of Reading is also told on this user-friendly site.

05/03/2017

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/10877137/D-Day-French-torn-over-criminal-British-and-American-D-Day-bombings-of-Caen.html

As survivors of the Allied bombings of Caen recall the devastating raids that reduced the city to rubble, French resentment persists over the operation to "flatten" towns and villages in the battle for Normandy in which 20,000 civilians died

16/10/2016

22/07/2016

http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/magazine/wwii-history-magazine/

It changed the world more than any other single event in history. There have been countless thousands of published works devoted to all or of it. But

16/04/2016

http://www.affordablecruiseexcursions.com/le-havre-rouen-honfleur-caen-calvados-excursions/49-medieval-bayeux-tapestry-a-historical-beaches.html

15/04/2016

The sheer breadth of the UK and US’s air campaign against carried out against Hi**er and his allies in the Second World War has been mapped out in a dramatic animation for the first time. The animation takes the viewer through the six year bombing campaign carried out by the RAF 1939 thro…

10/04/2016

A woman in Parfoundry, Belgium, who was 3 years old in December 1944 when German soldiers gathered her family and neighbors and shot them all, cried tears of relief this summer when she met Lou Baczewski, an industrial tech teacher at Washington High School, who in 2013 wrote the book, “Louch, a Simple Man’s True Story of War, Survival, Life and Legacy,” about his grandfather’s experience as a tanker in the 3rd Armored Division during World War II.

10/04/2016

The Battle of Normandy was the beginning of the 'Great Crusade' in Northern Europe by the Western Allies. The air and seaborne landings in Northern France were the largest the world has ever seen, with meticulous planning for D-Day, yet marked by a surfeit of clear goals once ashore. Both the bocage terrain and the dogged defense by the Germans resulted in the need for unexpected improvisation. Destroyed vehicles on highroad. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-720-0304-03 / Vennemann, Wolfgang / CC-BY-SA 3.0) Both sides had significant constraints; the British were nearing manpower exhaustion and would have to rely excessively on their armor arm, the United States had boundless resources but many of their divisions had never been in combat, while the Germans were short of everything and it was only through their ability to organize disparate troops into flexible kampfgruppen that they held the Allies for as long as they did. Destroyed vehicles on highroad. (Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-720-0304-02 / Vennemann, Wolfgang / CC-BY-SA 3.0) The Normandy Campaign is well known for many battles and engagements in which the Wehrmacht was on both ends of the offensive onslaught that would%