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08-01-2007, 10:57 PM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Apr 2004
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 | Caen area I am taking my 81 year old father and 16 year old son to the Normasndy area, we normally go to The Somme and do WW1. Need some help as totally lost! Where would you recommend we make our base, Caen? Are there fields we can walk to see where a battle was fought? ( a favourite hobby of ours on The Somme) What books are good for a group like ours? Any good suggestions for B&B Tony |
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08-01-2007, 11:27 PM
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| Ubique   Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK/France
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 | Tony - I would recommend Bayeux. It is much nicer than Caen IMHO and I often stay in the Campanile in Bayeux, which is cheap, has a good breakfast, has good parking, and you can easily walk into Bayeux at night from there. Hill 112 is Normandy's nearest thing to what you do on the Somme, but it is getting rarer to find anything there. Plenty of ideas of what to do on my sites below.
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08-01-2007, 11:31 PM
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| Top Moose  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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 | Hello Kirky, Over here from GWF then? If you want to see any Canadian Battlefields get this book. The Canadian Battlefields in Normandy: A Visitors Guide, ISBN 0-9688750-4-1, Terry Copp and Mike Bechthold, softcover, full colour, 182 photos, 18 maps, 152 PP I have it and used it over there, bloody brilliant. I also went to Hill 112 where 43rd Wessex Div fought.  Hill 112: Cornerstone of the Normandy Campaign Maj JJ How is good. Better than the Battleground Europe book of same action.  Good site on Hill 112 here. Hill112 memorial Normandy 1944 Just a few things to start you off. Last edited by Owen; 08-01-2007 at 11:36 PM. |
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08-01-2007, 11:34 PM
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| Ubique Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK/France
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| Would agree with Owen; the Canadian Guide is truly excellent. How's book on Hill 122 is a classic; the BE is a comic by comparison. I don't like any of the WW2 BEs except the one on Pegasus Bridge.
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