Books by Mr Patrick BOUSQUET

Slapton Sands! An English beach of sinister memory for all those who, as the captain Schroeder, in April, 1944, had participated in the operation Tiger, the tragic rehearsal of the landing in Normandy.

Julie was not able to refrain from shivering fi xant the horizon there. Spectres, which she had thought of exorcising by coming here, were back. More present than never ... Of the construction of the artifi port(bearing) sky of Arromanches in the treason of a network of local resistance, find the ghosts who haunt today still Port(Bearing) Winston.

My name is William Bishop. I belong to the US 1st Infantry Division, the famous Big Red One. Today is the 6th of June 1944 and, in a few minutes, I'll be landing on Omaha Beach, in the Easy Red sector. A beach that will go down in History as Bloody Omaha... This is my story...

- Marcel Ouimet from Radio Canada here. I am with men from the Regiment de La Chaudiere before a small seaside resort called Bernieres-sur-Mer.

"A small red ball that goes through the greatest of twentieth century tragedies to tell us of its experience... Is that so impossible? And yet... Sam, a small boy who lived happily with his father Joshua and his mother Sarah, was given that very ball for his birthday and it became his best friend. Then catastrophe struck: the Vel d'Hiv Roundup.