The Normandy American Cemetery

Number of pages : 328

Language : Anglais

How did the United States and its armed forces manage to take charge of the bodies of American soldiers killed in Normandy following the Allied landings on June 6, 1944? What explains the creation of an American cemetery in what was once farmland? How was it possible to preserve the memory of the 9,387 soldiers buried in what has become one of the most visited historic sites in Normandy?

With hundreds of thousands of visitors every year, the Colleville cemetery deserved a book of its own. Drawing on previously unpublished, high-quality documents, press articles and oral testimonies, the author, following university scientific procedures, has produced a captivating work of synthesis on this key memorial site of the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy.