The ‘sense-haunted ground’, part two

The experience of combat through the bocage

A British armoured vehicle in a field near Évrecy in Normandy, July 1944

The first part of this essay is here.

The English war artist Thomas Hennell, wrote from Normandy in late July 1944 of ‘the sense-haunted ground’ that the armies left behind. He meant, I think, how the intensities of human experience marked the landscape in ways that were both visible…