The ‘sense-haunted ground’: landscape, memory and the battle for Normandy 1944, part one
Remembering the dead
We visited the small British World War II cemetery at St Charles-de-Percy last autumn. It was a kind of pilgrimage, I suppose. St Charles is the southernmost cemetery for the dead of the Allied campaign through Normandy in the summer of 1944. A little over 800 men are buried there, 102 of them still, and …
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