A week today…

I’ll be Dorset Council UK’s library in Dorchester to talk #writing , #WW2 , & #NotTheWorkOfAnOrdinaryBoy !

Date: Sat 19th August.
Time: 11am.
Free.

All welcome!

#libraries #writerscommunity #readersoftwitter

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Colour, not colourised, photo of an M4 Sherman tank crew, possibly from 4th Armored Division, at Avranches in Normandy, July 1944. Life Magazine image by Frank Scherschel. #Normandy #WW2

In subject & texture, Dunbar’s work reminds me of The Overlord Embroidery exhibited The D-Day Story. The tapestry was commissioned by Lord Dulverton in 1968 & designed by artist, Sandra Lawrence. Lawrence’s design was stitched by women from the Royal School of Needlework in London.

Don't forget, we have fantastic author Dr Victoria L. Humphreys at the museum tomorrow (Saturday) for the launch of her new novel, Not the Work of an Ordinary Boy.
At this free event, Dr Humphreys will explain how she wrote the book and read extracts from it.
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The BEEKEEPER circuit is the fictional #SOE network operating in occupied #France in my #WW2 #Adventure novel, #NotTheWorkOfAnOrdinaryBoy . Only 2 more sleeps till my book launch The D-Day Story. Join me this Saturday at 11 for Qs, As & pigeon bones! #Free !

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Author Dr Victoria L. Humphreys is coming to The D-Day Story for the launch of her novel: Not the Work of an Ordinary Boy. 📖
At this free event Victoria will talk about how she came to write the novel and read an extract.
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You are cordially invited to help me #celebrate the publication of my debut #WW2 novel, #NotTheWorkOfAnOrdinaryBoy !

I'd love to meet you at the The D-Day Story, so please come along!

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For all my new Twitter pals with an interest in #WW2 , you may like a talk I gave in July of last year about my great-uncle, Ron Stone. Ron had been a combatant in the North African & Italian campaigns, and a prisoner-of-war in Stalag IV-B in Germany.

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Happy #FourthofJuly - a soldier from the US 2nd Infantry Division on 4 July 1944 in #Normandy . Photo taken near Le Molay-Littry. Life Magazine image by Frank Scherschel. #WW2 #FourthofJuly 2023

On 4th July 1944, 1st Bn Manchester Regiment was in action around Cheux.

The battalion had been in the line for three days, and both the #VickersMG and Mortar companies were busy firing on targets.

An AFPU cameraman was there to film the mortars...

🧵 1/8 #5DaysinNormandy

A photo taken some weeks after D-Day from one of the German bunkers overlooking Omaha Beach, showing the field of fire they had on 6 June 1944. Life Magazine image. #WW2 #DDay

Beginning Sep 21st, 1943, 9,500 Italian soldiers of the 33rd Acqui Division of Artillery were massacred by the Nazis on the Greek island of #Kefalonia following Italy’s surrender to the Allies. Enemies became allies as Kefalonians hid Italians to save them from murder. #WW2 🇬🇷

Great photo to show how the bunkers on the beaches were positioned to fire along the beaches, and not straight out to the sea like is often imagined.

Defences on the D-Day beaches photographed after the fighting had moved inland, June 1944. Aerial image by Life Magazine. #WW2 #Normandy #DDay

A photo taken some weeks after D-Day from one of the German bunkers overlooking Omaha Beach, showing the field of fire they had on 6 June 1944. Life Magazine image. #WW2 #DDay

My grandfather died the year before I was born. My dad had very few photos of him, & in the ones Dad had, he was a background figure, his aged face shielded by a trilby. Then, recently, my aunt produced this photo of him & it felt like an introduction to a man in his prime. #RAMC

Foxhole positions in a Normandy field among the Bocage, in a sector held by US Forces in June 1944. Aerial image by Life Magazine. #WW2 #Normandy #DDay

'We, once conquered by William, have now set free the Conqueror's native land.' - Allied soldiers in Bayeux Cathedral, June 1944. Image by Life Magazine photographer Frank Scherschel. #WW2 #Normandy #DDay

The facade of Barrack n◦6, Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp. In August 1942, 1,500 Jewish children were taken from here to Drancy, & from Drancy to Auschwitz-Birkenau to be murdered by the Nazis. Some were too young to know their own name: their parents had gone before them.

The Fourth and final Battle of Cassino began #OTD in 1944 which would lead to the capture of the Monte Cassino monastery by Polish forces. This Life Image by George Silk shows the ruins of Cassino still dominated by the monastery in the summer of 1944. #WW2