Today is the eightieth anniversary of the death of the poet and memoirist. What follows is the piece I wrote ten years for the New Statesman to mark the seventieth anniversary: Keith Douglas was just 24 when killed only three days after landing in Normandy. As 8th Armoured Brigade sought a breakout south of Bayeux, …
Monthly Archive: June 2024
Jun 05
D-Day New Forest talk: Sway and the Sherwood Rangers, spring 1944
SWAY AND THE SHERWOOD RANGERS, SPRING 1944 This was the basis for a talk I gave in Sway village hall on 4 June 2024 as part of the village’s impressive array of D-Day anniversary events, partly organised in conjunction with St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery in Lymington. My thanks to fellow St Barbe trustee …
Adrian Smith, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton
