In 1816, a fleet of ships left France to accept the British hand-overof the port of Saint-Louis in Senegal. Among them was the frigateMedusa. A month after it set sail, she shank miles off of Africa'
A brilliant reconstruction of the struggle that ravaged Normandy throughout the summer of 1944 in the wake of the D-Day landings, this work culls personal accounts of those who took part in the fighti
