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Birling Gap

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. The RAF Bomber Command Memorial on Beachy Head. The RAF Bomber Command Memorial, located on Beachy Head above the lighthouse. During the Second World War this was a[...]
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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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