William Jordan is a prolific writer who specialises in history. His extensive Pitkin work covers the mid-20th century in depth with titles such as Bloody Omaha, The Bayeux British Cemetery and Churchill in Normandy.William Jordan is a prolific writer who specialises in history. His extensive Pitkin work covers the mid-20th century in depth with titles such as Bloody Omaha, The Bayeux British Cemetery and Churchill in Normandy.

• Introduction; Bayeux - Liberation; The battlefield graves; The Army chaplains; The medics (The cutting edge); Nursing staff (Quiet heroines); Aerial map (A countryside transformed); Grave registration; Burial and exhumation; Grave concentration; The entrance to the cemetery; Winter months (To absent friends); 1945 - The price of victory ... and solidarity; Conclusion; Simply Me When I'm Dead (poem)poem