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«The need to remember»
There are many of us in the Moselle region who remember that it was not all the long ago that our territory, Lorraine, was liberated from tyranny and oppression …. |
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 The 90th Infantry Division Association
Official website of the 90th Infantry Division.
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Pascal Moretti | Jean-Pascal Speck | André Maljean | Robert Varoqui | Anthony Kemp
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Anthony
(Tony) KEMP
Honorary member, Military Historian |
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Anthony saw his first GI's in
the spring of 1944 in a small village in Hampshire
at the age of five and he was told that would soon
be going over the
water to fight the enemy. He grew up during the post
war period and absorbed the history of WWII, never forgetting
that an unknown soldier gave him his first banana.
Many years later in the late 'seventies, as a junior academic, he
was researching for a book on the Maginot Line and in looking for evidence of re-use in
1944 by the Germans, he stumbled upon H.M. Cole's magisterial history of
the Lorraine Campaign where he read for the first time about the three
months of the battle along the Moselle and the reduction of the Metz fortress.
Yes, everyone knew how Patton had burst out of Normandy, chased the Huns
across France and had then stopped them again in the Ardennes. But, what
had his troops been doing in between? To answer that question, Anthony
wrote The Unknown Battle - Metz 1944, published in 1981 which was followed
a few years later with a vast new French/English version, Lorraine Album
Memorial.
Both books have long been out of print and Anthony went on to other things
including a career as a TV director and forgot about Lorraine until the
50th anniversary in 1994 when he was invited to attend the commemoration
ceremonies in Thionville. A further chance contact happened in 2001 when
he was approached by Alain and Elisabeth Gozzo of the Association
Thanks-GI's to the south of Meta. They told him that the Album Memorial was their "bible",
which persuaded Anthony to attempt a rewrite which he completed in March
2003 including a lot of new material and photos. After the inevitable delays
by the publisher it is due to be available in August-September with the
title Metz 1944 - One More River.
Once again Anthony settled back to attend to his garden, but Pascal Moretti
made conact with the 90th Division Association which was passed onto Anthony,
and thus he became involved yet again in the epic of the liberation of
Lorraine.
For more information about Anthony, see his personal web page.
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 The DVD to remember is now available for $ 28. |
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