The ‘sense-haunted ground’, part three
The civilian catastrophe and the martyrdom of the towns
The first two parts of this essay are here and here.
It’s not far from Caumont-l-Éventé, where the British breakout in the Battle of Normandy began, to Vire: 20-odd miles, perhaps. And Caumont is itself about 20 miles south from the coast near Omaha Beach, so it sits roughly half way between Vire and the sea.…
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