ENEMIES AND BROTHERS

In June 1944, Johannes Börner was 19 years old and Léon Gautier 21. These two elite soldiers took part in the Battle of Normandy on the front line, each convinced that they were fighting for a good cause. One will experience the exhilaration of victory, the other the humiliation of defeat and prison camps. Seventy years later, they live in the same place, Ouistreham, a seaside resort in Calvados where Léon Gautier landed among the 177 French people of the legendary Kieffer Commando. Johannes Börner married a Norman woman and became French in 1956. They are friends and share their experience together so that humanity will never again experience the horror of the Second World War. “It is well written and certain passages are dense with emotion and true humanism. Read at a time when Europe is questioning its common values ​​and objectives. » History in bursts, Hervé Chabaud “They share the same nightmares, anecdotes sometimes