Managing and Interpreting D-Day's Sites of Memory (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)

More than seventy years following the D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944, Normandy's war heritage continues to intrigue visitors and researchers. Receiving well over two million visitors a year, the Normandy landscape of war is among the most visited cultural sites in France. This book explores the significant role that heritage and tourism play in the present day with regard to educating the public as well as commemorating those who fought. The book examines the perspectives, experiences and insights of those who work in the field of war heritage in the region of Normandy where the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy occurred. In this volume practitioner authors represent a range of interrelated roles and responsibilities. These perspectives include national and regional governments and coordinating agencies involved in policy, planning and implementation; war cemetery commissions; managers who oversee particular museums and sites; and individual battlefield tour guides whose vocation is to research and interpret sites of memory. Often interviewed as key informants for scholarly articles, the day-to-day observations, experiences and management decisions of these guardians of remembrance provide valuable insight into a range of issues and approaches that inform the meaning of tourism, remembrance and war heritage as well as implications for the management of war sites elsewhere. Complementing the Normandy practitioner offerings, more scholarly investigations provide an opportunity to compare and debate what is happening in the management and interpretation at other World War II related sites of war memory, such as at Pearl Harbor, Okinawa and Portsmouth, UK. This innovative volume will be of interest to those interested in remembrance tourism, war heritage, dark tourism, battlefield tourism, commemoration, D-Day and World War II.

Business & Money

CLAXTON, Sean

Reeves, Keir

Industries

Routledge

A STORY OF DESPERATE FIGHTING BETWEEN CANADIANS AND THE WAFFEN-SS\nThe Regina Rifles landed on Juno Beach on 6 June, 1944, and quickly made progress inland. Despite heavy casualties on D-Day, by 7 June, they occupied defensive positions inside and around the small town of Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse. 
Little did they know that on 8-9 June, they would be engaged in a series of desperate battles against elements of the 12.SS-Panzerdivision “Hitler Jugend.” The Regina’s were struck by attack after attack by the Waffen-SS, who committed their units into battle piecemeal in an effort to throw the invaders back into the sea. 
With the aid of eye witness accounts, contemporary photos and detailed maps, the reader can visit the scenes of these battles and see how they unfolded from the perspective of the participants on both sides of the conflict. There is no better way to learn history than to walk the ground where events unfolded with the aid of a knowledgeable guide. This book allows the reader to conduct a self-guided tour in less than a day. 
Canadian soldiers had a fierce reputation in the Second World War. The tenacity and courage shown by the Regina Rifles in Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse make it clear that this reputation was well-merited.

A Very Hostile Night: The Regina Rifles in Bretteville-l’Orgueilleuse, 8/9 June 1944

History

Military

Double Dagger Books

Product Description La technique de superposer deux images en transparence,deux images du même endroit prises « hier » (1944) et « aujourd’hui», donne une vision surprenante du destin qui s’estjoué en 1944 pendant la bataille de Normandie et nous permetd’imaginer précisément aujourd’hui les scènes qui ontscellé le destin de l’Europe. About the Author Originaire d’Angleterre, Nigel Stewart habite ettravaille en Normandie depuis 1992. Diplôméd’un master en Beaux-Arts, il est devenu guideinterprèteen 1999. Fasciné par l’histoire de laSeconde Guerre mondiale depuis sa jeunesse, il réalisedes visites guidées sur des sites historiques ainsique des présentations en conférences.Également originaire d’Angleterre, Sean Claxtonhabite et travaille en Normandie depuis 2004, aprèsavoir passé onze ans à Londres. Passionné de l’histoiremilitaire depuis son jeune âge, il est engagé dansnombreux projets commémoratifs et travaille commeguide-interprète sur les lieux du Débarquement et dela bataille de Normandie.

Normandy ghosts

STEWART, Nigel

Orep

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