John Julius Norwich: France [2018] hardback GAEIL It is also a joyful

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John Julius Norwich: France [2018] hardback GAEIL It is also a joyfulI can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of garlic in their blue green blousons; the raucous sound all around me of spoken French; the immense fields of Normandy strangely devoid of hedges; then the Gare du Nord at twilight, the policemen with their kepis and their little snow white batons; and my first sight of