Outside the Caen-Normandie Museum of WWll in Caen, France. Based on a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt which appeared in an issue of Life magazine in 1945, this sculpture has been much criticised by women’s rights groups since it was erected at the city-owned Mémorial de Caen. The French group, Osez le Féminisme, said at the…
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ARRAS: Wellington Quarry
A visit to The Wellington Quarry, which is in the middle of the old city of Arras, reveals a little-known story of World War I and is a good place in which to try and understand the horrors of World War I.
Read MoreD-Day Landings at Normandy
Omaha is most remembered for the casualties the Americans took there from German machine gun fire that tore into the troops as they tried to sprint across the beach to the seawall. It was a massacre, a terrible loss of life.
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