At the American cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach, on the huge map engraved in stone, red ceramic stars indicate Allied bombings. Foreign tourists do not realize what these stars symbolize for the French, pain, drama and sometimes misunderstanding.
How to wage war on friends? Time has run its course, casting into oblivion the suffering of the French under the Allied bombs; History will only remember the liberation of this deluge, which claimed tens of thousands of civilian lives. “It was the price to pay for our freedom. Did a young mother finding her child dead under a collapsed wall then think of freedom?
This book reviews the French cities which had to suffer from these fratricidal bombardments, their actors, their motivations and their machines. It is a duty of memory towards our civilian compatriots, who were more than 60,000 to perish because of the Allies.