Normandy diary : being a record of survivals and losses of historical monuments in north-western France, together with those in the Island of Walcheren and in that part of Belgium traversed by 21st army group in 1944-45 / by Lord Methuen ; with an introduction by Leonard Wooley

Lord Methuen RA

RA Collection: Book

Record number

13/2552

Author

Edition

1st edition

Imprint

London: Robert Hale Limited, 63 Old Brompton Road, S.W.7., 1952

Physical Description

xxv, 263 pages : illustrations, (some colour), maps (1 folded colour) ; 29 cm.

General Note

An errata slip is loosely inserted.

Contents

List of illustrations -- List of text figures -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction / Sir Charles Leonard Wooley -- Preface -- Chapter I-III. The Caen Plain, the Pays d’Auge and the Valley of the Eure -- IV. The Department of Orne -- V. Seine-Inférieure -- VI. Amiens and the Valley of the Somme -- VII. Artois and French Flanders -- VIII-IX. Belgium and Holland -- Appendices: A. Summary reports of the archives, libraries, museums and objects of art; and on the historical monuments in North-Western France, with tables, arranged alphabetically, showing their state: Calvados; Eure; Seine-Infériure; Somme; Pas-de-Calais; Nord -- B. Regulations in France governing the scheduling of historic monuments, sites and objects of art, and the safeguarding of archaeological finds -- C. List of works of art taken from the Church of Notre-Dame in Bruges on the night of the 6-7 September 1944 -- D. A note on the tower and projected spire of S.-Rombaut at Malines

Binding Note

Illustrated dust jacket. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with titled in gilt on the spine: `Lord Methuen. Normandy Diary. Survival and loss of historical monuments. Robert Hale.'

Subject

Illustrated books
World War Two
World War, 1939-1945

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