Tag: WWII
The Snow Goose Returns to Dunkirk
"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."
An Interview with Ian Patrick, Photographer of Normandy Veterans
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.
Examining Lyon’s Resistance and Deportation History Center
Elizabeth Esris was drawn to the Resistance and Deportation History Center in Lyon because of her enduring desire to understand how ordinary citizens muster the will to resist, sacrifice and survive in the face of repressive treatment.
Paris Exhibition: “You Will Always Remember Me,” Words and Drawings of the Children of...
Relatively well known in France but little beyond its borders, the history of the home for Jewish child refugees that operated in the village of Izieu, 45 miles east of Lyon, from May 1943 to April 1944 provides a remarkable glimpse of migration, childhood and caregiving under perilous conditions.
Where and Why to Visit the American WWI Sights of France
A France Revisited “Conversation with an Expert” in which Gary Lee Kraut speaks with Ben Brands, the historian with the American Battle Monuments Commission about the U.S. First World War sights of France.
The Museum of the Liberation of Paris
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
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.
D-Day Turns 75: Five Threads Leading from the Beaches of Normandy
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.
Arcs of War and Triumph
The France Revisited Newsletter: I write this in the wake of two major events in Paris over the past month that occurred by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe. On Nov. 11, the gathering of leaders of the belligerent nations of the First World War to commemorate the centennial of the armistice.
On Dec. 1, the vandalization of the arch by some affiliated with the Yellow Vest movement.