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Letters from Spectator readers, July 2024

D-day

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Letters from Spectator readers, July 2024

Normandy, Philly and crushing the cartels

The Spectator

Joe Biden’s D-Day performance is evidence of his mental unfitness

He forgot where to sit, talked about the loss of Russian troops and sat in an invisible chair

Ella Johnson

A Spectator editor’s account of D-Day

The beach was alive with the shambles and the order of war. There were dead men and wounded men and men brewing tea

Iain Macleod

If the West is to stay the same, a lot will have to change

Plenty of historical situations in which fundamental assumptions about society are disrupted can be restored only by something like revolution

Roger Kimball

Europe

King Charles’s moving D-Day addresses

The monarch spoke, intelligently and affectingly, about how D-Day represented the finest hour that Churchill had promised his people

Alexander Larman

Europe
June 5, 2024
The political capital of D-Day
The Normandy American Cemetery will be closed to the public on Wednesday and Thursday
Gavin Mortimer
Europe
May 27, 2024
This Memorial Day, reflect on your freedom
Thoughts on Normandy and D-Day
Roger Kimball
Place
May 15, 2024
On D-Day at eighty
All the sadness of lost youth hovers over Normandy
Timothy Jacobson
Europe
June 8, 2023
Rishi Sunak’s D-Day blunder
No Canadian wreath from the British PM?
Cockburn
Books
February 27, 2023
The difficulties of writing historical fiction
Historians ask ‘What?’ Novelists ask ‘What if?’
Dan Jones
Culture
October 28, 2022
Eighty years later, World War Two is fading from historical memory
We’re losing touch with its lessons just as they struggled to commemorate the Civil War
Michael R. Auslin
Diary
September 23, 2021
The beauty of the Normandy memorial
I am deeply moved to find the names of two of my father’s comrades who were killed doing the same perilous job as he did
Timothy Garton Ash
December 30, 2019
A soldier’s legacy: how a baby’s cry saved a family
My father would admit that he had helped someone, but would never say more
Frances Welch
Europe
June 6, 2019
On D-Day, Macron has learned nothing and forgotten everything
He embodies the corruption of liberal democracy into elite managerialism
Dominic Green

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