It was surprisingly hard for me to conceive, when I walked the peaceful, picturesque beaches along the west coast of Northern France for the research of this book and the related documentaries, that they were the setting for the remarkable, never to be forgotten Normandy Landings. The beautiful sands are known as the ‘Cote de Nacre’, which poetically translates as the ‘Mother of Pearl Coast’, and the beaches are awash with poignantly moving memories of that auspicious and historic day, when thousands of Allied troops came ashore on June 6th 1944. The events that took place there are celebrated as D-Day, and without doubt this daringly heroic and ultimately liberating invasion marked the beginning of the end of World War II.
Since September 1939 when war broke out, for the Allies, victory and the prospect of peace was a distant and often uncertain dream, somewhere in the future, as Adolf Hitler and his Axis of Evil stormed to power across Europe.
But by 1942 the mists of doubt had slowly started to lift and the vision of a world free from tyranny began to emerge, and although up until D-Day the war could still have swung in Hitler’s favor, as preparations were made, fortune seemed to have been smiling on the Allies for some time, firstly in North Africa and then across the Mediterranean into Italy. “Before Alamein we never had a victory, After Alamein we never had a defeat”.
Directed and narrated by Liam Dale
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