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May 26, 1944
One of a series of stories and place-based sketches exploring locations that sit at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book.
On this day in 1940 — the beaches at Dunkirk, and a Flight Sergeant already on his way home.
86 years ago today, on 26 May 1940, what[...]
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The House Where Commandant Guerin Recovered
One of a series of stories and place-based sketches exploring locations that sit at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book.
A hamlet in the Rhône, a surgeon's memoir, and one night in April 1944.
Eighty-two years ago today, on the evening of 22 April 1944, a man was[...]
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From St Cyr to Tempsford — The Road That Brought Them Home
One of a series of stories and place-based sketches exploring locations that sit at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book.
INTRODUCTION — A field near Mâcon
There is a field, roughly 9 kilometres north-north-east of Mâcon, that looks like any other in the Ain. Flat, wide, unremarkable. A[...]
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