Just a few hundred meters from the ruines of Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, I meet this memorial. It overlooks the valley with he church....
The monument is constructed to honour the soldiers who died in Algeria, Tunisia and Marocco in the period 1952 - 1964...
What had the French lost in this part of the world. One would assume that after the two tragedies on their own territories, they would know better....
The book of Barbara Tuchman, “The march of folly“.....
Wist niet dat jij Mars der Dwaasheid gelezen hebt...impressed !