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| | Contemporary Review: The Battlefields Of Normandy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) |
 | | Tilly is a fairly ordinary French village, smaller than its neighbour Villers-Bocage where the weekly market was in progress as I drove through down me de I'Armee Britannique Sharpshooters, a name that set the note for the day ahead. |
 | | Contrast this with the blow-ups of photos of Tilly taken pre-war which hang on the walls, and the pristine neatness and contented air of the place today, and it is difficult to believe they are one and the same, so complete was the destruction. |
 | | After Tilly the party went on, south west to Livry, and Briquessart, tiny places difficult to find on an ordinary touring map, the site, nevertheless, of the kind of typically hard fought infantry action that the nature of the landscape dictated. |
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