The U.S. Army and the Erasure of the French Resistance in Normandy
The records of the liberation of France were kept for decades, but the silence regarding the local fighters who bled for the landings is a deliberate choice.
By Harlan Pryce ·
The records of the liberation of France were kept for decades, but the silence regarding the local fighters who bled for the landings is a deliberate choice.
By Harlan Pryce ·
British planners used a joint cell to drop French saboteurs into the Reich under operations MOLESEY and VICARAGE, keeping the gamble buried in Balkan files for decades.
By Harlan Pryce ·
A British agent’s mission to arm the French resistance in the Dordogne is preserved in a file that ignores the civilian blood price of tactical success.
By Harlan Pryce ·