our selection of 6 books to understand the landing of June 6, 1944

Freeze frames of the Liberation

Landing Liberation. Preparations for commemorations
Emmanuel Thiébot
Ed. Armand Colin, 240 p. ; €24.90.

Director of the Falaise Memorial (Calvados), dedicated to the civilian victims of the D-Day landings, Emmanuel Thiébot draws on 50 archival documents to retrace the history of the Liberation up to the Nuremberg trials in 1945-1946. Press cuttings, posters, photographs… Read in particular the one which recounts the birth of the Landing Committee, in 1945, to commemorate this historic day, and the immediate birth of memory tourism.