We start our drive out of France, our longest stay in one country since Australia, by heading to Dieppe (pronounced, we learned last night, as “deep” in Kiwi) and onwards towards the beaches of Normandy and, ultimately Vimy. A city surrounded by high cliffs, it was the scene of a failed Allied invasion in August 1942, when a force of 5,000 soldiers, 80% or so Canadian, attempted to take the heavily fortified city. Although a major failure with a terrible cost, war historians say that the lessons learned were critical (dare I say “key success factors”) to the success of D-Day. We
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We start our drive out of France, our longest stay in one country since Australia, by heading to Dieppe (pronounced, we learned last night, as “deep” in Kiwi) and onwards towards the beaches of Normandy and, ultimately Vimy. A city surrounded by high cliffs, it was the scene of a failed Allied invasion in August 1942, when a force of 5,000 soldiers, 80% or so Canadian, attempted to take the heavily fortified city. Although a major failure with a terrible cost, war historians say that the lessons learned were critical (dare I say “key success factors”) to the success of D-Day. We […]

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