Breakfast
Before d—day began, planning for operation overlord, as it was known, took many months, if not years. working alone in a basement room in whitehall, christian lamb created maps for the landing craft that were central to the amphibious attack. last month, we traveled here to normandy with christian, who saw the beaches she'd charted 80 years ago for the very first time. it looks absolutely wonderful, so clear and so blue and it's so attractive. i don't suppose it looked like that then, really. one was very worried about it and expecting ghastly things to happen. these are what i am supposed t...