A Spectator editor’s account of the D-Day landings
The beach was alive with the shambles and the order of war. There were dead men and wounded men and men brewing tea
Iain Macleod
Thursday
A Spectator editor’s account of the D-Day landings
Today is the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings. On 6 June 1944, some 160,000 Allied troops crossed the Channel, as part of the largest seaborne invasion in history. One of those men was Iain Mcleod, who would go on to become editor of The Spectator and then Chancellor of the Exchequer under Edward Heath. In 1964, for