![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hitchcock’s book might provide some salutary perspective. But in these days of close and detailed reporting on civilian casualties in Afghanistan, and the angry reaction of Afghan villagers to the use of American air power, a reading of Mr. Hitchcock’s remarkable book, “The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe,” which, though largely neglected by reviewers, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize this year. Probably not many current-day Afghans, suffering from a war of liberation of their own, have read Mr. Hitchcock writes, “yearned for liberation.” Hitchcock has put it, “Normandy would be chewed into a bloody, unrecognizable mess.” It is important to stress that these civilian casualties were among the allied and friendly French citizens who, as Mr. These deaths took place in the two and a half months between June 6, 1944, and Aug. NEW YORK - It’s an underappreciated, almost ignored fact in the grand narrative of World War II that the Allied invasion of Normandy caused something on the order of 19,890 civilian deaths in the five French departments that saw most of the fighting. ![]()
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