“Shells are exploding everywhere, and not far away, with short moments of calm; we take advantage to run… we return with hearts pounding to burrow into the trench. Each time a shell hisses by too low, I cling to the back of the cook’s helper, it makes me feel a little secure, and he turns around with a smile. The fact is that we’re all afraid.”
Invasion of Normandy [1944]: Marie-Louise Osmont Witnesses Everything!
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THE CHRONICLES OF HISTORY 