A few rare days off have recently given me some time for reading some new additions to the Normandy Battle Tours Library. First off was Andrew Stewarts Caen Controversy. Whilst giving an excellent and up to now unequalled account of the Sword Beach assault and the 3rd Divisions D-Day advance toward Caen, I feel a trick was missed in exposing the motives of those who have perpetrated the myth of Caen for so long. John Buckleys excellent Montys Men goes a little further into this but once again I feel stops short of outing the criminal neglect and intentional re-writing of the Sword Beach landing which so many popular historians have regurgitated the same misinformation in order to advance their own re-writing of history. I myself have around 200,000 words currently in note form to put together for my attempt of addressing this issue in my own book which I hope to have ready within the next five years, to be published after the sequel to Following in the Footsteps of Heroes which should be ready for a Winter 2015 / Spring 2016 release. Another two books, Mary Louise Roberts D-Day through French Eyes and D-Day in History and Memory which includes contributions from the excellent John Buckley are on the reading list to come before I take a break from touring the Normandy Battlefields and look into the reading lists for my upcoming studies for a Masters Degree in Military History. This page shall be closed in a couple of months time as I combine all projects I work on (past and present) into one page for myself as an author. Ill give you all plenty of notice before this page disappears. All the best Stuart Robertson
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:09:24 +0000
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