History of War

EXAMINING THE ‘D-DAY CIRCUS’

“IT IS SAD THAT THE EVENTS AROUND D-DAY NOW APPEAR TO HAVE MORPHED INTO A KIND OF MILITARY HISTORY FESTIVAL WHERE MAKING MONEY IS UP THERE ALONGSIDE REMEMBRANCE”

June 6 2019 the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings took place in France. In the weeks leading up to the event our computer screens, newspapers, phones and televisions were awash with D-Day related content. The event was heralded as the last time a relatively large number of veterans would descend once more onto the beaches of Normandy in an act of remembrance to their fallen comrades who perished storming those very same beaches, fighting through bocage and liberating France

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