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The City That Died for Liberation: The Civilian Tragedy of Caen

In the summer of 1944, the battle for Caen was not just a military clash, but the systematic destruction of a city and its ...
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The Meat Grinder of Caen: The Battle That Consumed the Normandy Campaign

What was supposed to fall on D-Day took seven weeks and tens of thousands of casualties to secure. The battle for Caen became a brutal war of attrition, pinning elite Allied and German forces in a ...