Jack Woodville London, Director Emeritus of the Military Writers Society of America (MWSA), will speak on the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings at Omaha and Utah Beaches in Normandy, France. Jack will speak at the Brittany American Military Cemetery at Montjoie-Saint-Martin, France, on June 6, 2024, and at the Normandy American Military Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, France, on June 7, 2024.
Jack, in his own words:
“I am humbled by this invitation. Like many of us, I grew up in a small town where the men and women of my parents’ generation had served in the war, become heroes in their service, and never spoke of it. Only when I served I the Army myself did I begin to learn the magnitude of courage and the gravity of sacrifice that the men and women of the generation before us summoned to go ashore in France and in all the theatres of war and to fight, suffer, and too often die for our country in a war that demanded honorable sacrifice by every living American, man, woman, and child.”
The invitation to Jack to speak in France on D-Day is almost certainly because of the books he has written, particularly his historical World War II trilogy French Letters, for which he won the Author of the Year Award and for which the final novel, Children of a Good War, was named best historical military fiction of 2018-2019. Click here to order the books. Friends are encouraged to send messages to Jack at jack@jackwlondon.com.
For more information or an interview with Jack, please contact Marlena Brown (mlbpublicity@gmail.com).
