Most people think birds just go pi-pi-pi
James Fletcher, 4 April 1996
The Messiaen Companion
edited by Peter Hill.
Faber, 581 pp., £40, March 1995,0 571 17033 1 Show More
edited by Peter Hill.
Faber, 581 pp., £40, March 1995,
Olivier Messiaen: Music and Colour. Conversations with Claude Samuel
translated by Thomas Glasow.
Amadeus, 296 pp., $29.95, May 1994,0 931340 67 5 Show More
translated by Thomas Glasow.
Amadeus, 296 pp., $29.95, May 1994,
“... By spring 1940 France and Britain had been at war with Germany for more than six months; Belgium was already occupied by the Nazis. On 9 June some fifty divisions Of the German Army under von Rundstedt, a commander so formidable that even Hitler is said to have treated him with considerable respect, struck southwards from Belgium towards Rheims. The French forces behind the Aisne resisted heroically, but were far outnumbered ... ”
