Tag: war touring

Dunkirk - Stretch of beach and distant pier, a portion of the site of the evacuation of 1940. Photo GLKraut.

The Snow Goose Returns to Dunkirk

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"Though I hadn’t reread The Snow Goose in many years, I realized that it had been a part of my life for more than 80 years. Yet I had never been to Dunkirk, even though it’s only about 180 miles northwest of Paris. I felt a sudden desire—no, a need—to go there."
Ian Patrick's D-Day Portraits, Anonymous Heroes cover photo cropped.

An Interview with Ian Patrick, Photographer of Normandy Veterans

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An interview with photographer Ian Patrick on the triple occasion of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, an exhibition of his portraits of Normandy Veterans at the Army Museum at the Invalides in Paris, and the publication an expanded second edition of his book D-Day Portraits, Anonymous Heroes.
WWI Reenactors as Americans camped in front of the museus in Meaux (c) Gary Lee Kraut

Meaux’s Museum of the Great War, WWI Reenactors and Brie (Video)

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An article and video about the Museum of the Great War of Meaux and the pleasures of meeting reenactors there during WWI reenactment weekend in September, along with a tasty side-serving of brie cheese.
Women War Photographers, Christine Spengler, Paris exhibition - FR

Paris Exhibitions: Women War Photographers

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The intensity of the narratives told in Women War Photographers makes this gathering of images and texts horribly mesmerizing and insightful and this exhibition perhaps the most notable in Paris this season.
Kristen Grauer, U.S. Consul General in Marseille

Video Interview: Kristen Grauer, U.S. Consul General in Marseille

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What lurks behind the brilliant smile of Kristen Grauer, U.S. Consul General in Marseille? Find out in this wide-ranging video interview.
French army combat ration box

You know you live in Paris when…: French Combat Rations

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At home in Paris, in a neighborhood with an extraordinary array of food shops, bakeries and restaurants, the author opens a box of French combat rations and sets out on a mission of three square meals.
Liberation of Paris, barricade

The Museum of the Liberation of Paris

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A new, free, highly informative museum in Paris, partially located in an air raid shelter used by the Resistance during the city's liberation, provides insights into the history of Paris and Parisians during the Second World War.

Eisenhower, de Gaulle and the Wild Rabbits at the Invalides

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Late on a drizzly afternoon, having learned nothing and felt little from reading about and watching videos of the 75th anniversary of D-Day commemorations in Normandy, I went to visit the wild rabbits that inhabit the lawn of the Invalides.
Normandy American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach

D-Day Turns 75: Five Threads Leading from the Beaches of Normandy

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Beyond the numerous commemorative ceremonies that accompany the 75th anniversary of D-Day and of the liberation of villages and towns over the ensuing ten weeks, here are five telling ways in which organizations and businesses are using, (re)interpreting or inspired by Normandy’s wartime memory in 2019.

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