Managing and Interpreting D-Day's Sites of Memory

Managing and Interpreting D-Day's Sites of Memory
Author: Geoffrey Bird
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2016-03-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317515714

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.

Geology and Warfare

Geology and Warfare
Author: Edward P. F. Rose
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781862390652

Records lessons learnt from miltary experience in World War I and II. It also contains perspectives from America which show how, in warfare, military geologists irrespective of nationality have pursued tactical and strategic terrain analysis, fortifications and tunnelling, and resource acquisition, defence installations, and field constructions and logistics. It shows how in peace-time military geologists train for wartime operations and may be involved in peace-keeping and nation-building deployments.

The British Tommy in North-west Europe, 1944-1945: Organisation, armament, and vehicles

The British Tommy in North-west Europe, 1944-1945: Organisation, armament, and vehicles
Author: Jean Bouchery
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

The latest Histoire & Collections book depicts the British Army from Normandy to VE Day in unprecedented detail. Because of the extensive coverage of armored vehicles, this volume will prove to be especially useful to modelers and dioramists. Over 600 color illustrations including wartime photos, detail shots of original items and plates covering camouflage and markings.

Plages du Débarquement et bataille de Normandie

Plages du Débarquement et bataille de Normandie
Author: Manufacture française des pneumatiques Michelin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2014
Genre: Normandy (France)
ISBN: 9782067195165

Découvrez la Normandie aujourd'hui sur les sites de l'épopée de la liberté : 10 circuits et itinéraires et tous les sites classés par étoiles ; 230 adresses pour tous les budgets ; 14 cartes et plans Michelin avec nos adresses positionnées ; Nos idées de programmes d'un week-end à une semaine.