Have you ever wondered what the D in D-Day stands for?
Towards the end of August 1944, resistance fighters from all around the region fought Germans and French militia to take back Perpignan.
The Avions war memorial at Port Vendres quotes the now legendary tribute from Winston Churchill to the heroic pilots and aircrews who, from June to October 1940 fought the Battle of Britain.
The war is nearing it’s end. The Germans occupying France are on edge and expecting the Allied Invasion at any time.
Walter Benjamin, (1892 – 1940) German-Jewish literary critic, fierce critic of Nazism and posthumously one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers, has a plaque dedicated to him in Banyuls-sur-Mer.
During World War II the majority of RAF Evaders made their escape or passed through France on their way from Germany and Occupied countries, heading for the coasts in an attempt to return to England.
Love and War in the Pyrenees by Rosemary Bailey is available in paperback, the cover glowing with the colourful stripes so familiar to lovers of the Catalan fabric of St Laurent de Cerdans.
Up to 4 months maternity leave, free health care for all, government-funded crèches and écoles maternelles, and a medal for having four children or more (yes really, read on)…. What a joy to be a…
