Liberation of Strasbourg 1944

The occupation and liberation of Strasbourg was described by de Gaulle as ‘one of the most brilliant episodes in our military history’, yet is overshadowed outside France by the Battle of the Bulge. France’s equivalent to Douglas MacArthur’s oath ‘I shall return,’ General Philippe Leclerc’s Oath of Kufra, ‘not to lay down our arms until our colours, our beautiful colours, fly over Strasbourg Cathe...