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Pascal Vannier

Pascal Vannier worked as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for France TV for forty years. He recorded the testimonies of eighty survivors of Allied bombing for the Falaise Memorial of Civilians in the War. His grandfather was killed by the American bombing of Périers in 1944. (June 2024)

D-Day’s Forgotten Victims Speak Out

D-Day’s Forgotten Victims Speak Out

Eighty years after D-Day, few know one of its darkest stories: the thousands of French civilians killed by a British and American carpet-bombing campaign of little military purpose.

L’Enfer du Havre, 1940–1944

by Julien Guillemard

Le Havre 44: À feu et à sang

by Eddy Florentin

Forgotten Blitzes: France and Italy Under Allied Air Attack, 1940–1945

by Claudia Baldoli and Andrew Knapp

Les Français sous les bombes alliées, 1940–1945

by Andrew Knapp

Les Civils dans la bataille de Normandie

by Françoise Passera and Jean Quellien

Le Calvados dans la guerre, 1939–1945

by Jean Quellien

Les Normands dans la guerre: Le temps des épreuves, 1939–1945

by Françoise Passera and Jean Quellien

Villes normandes sous les bombes (Juin 1944)

edited by Michel Boivin, Gérard Bourdin, and Jean Quellien

Bombardements 1944: Le Havre, Normandie, France, Europe

edited by John Barzman, Corinne Bouillot, and Andrew Knapp

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