The D-Day beaches, the most famous of which are marked in red on the map, are about 150 rail miles from Paris, stopping at Caen where there is bus service to the beaches as well as rental car offices (directly across from the train station at Caen). Check out our Normandy, Brittany and Loire Valley tour if you'd like to cover these regions on your next trip to France. We have an atlas as well, but with an atlas I'm flicking between different pages to follow the journey.

Initially, the invasion was planned for May 1944, but Eisenhower determined that it should be June 5. My husband and I had a full week to spend in southern France before an event we were attending in Cahor.The maps also include information on toll points, service areas, road numbers, motorways, dual carriageways and local roads. A big THANK YOU to the United States Army Center of Military History for their help in providing the input for these pages.

The main lines are: Paris-Caen-Cherbourg; Trouville-Deauville; Paris-Rouen-Le Havre; Paris-Granville; Paris-Evreux-Serquigny; and Caen-Le Mans-Tours. Often printed on fabric to support covert operations and resistance behind enemy lines, Escape and Evasion maps remain crucial in the liberation of airmen and in paving the way for successful campaigns today. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Satellite-derived base mapping with colouring for the forested areas and boundaries of national and regional parks showing the topography.

If you're particularly interested in world war history, you may enjoy our World War History Tour of France.This Grand-Hôtel continues to operate as a luxury hotel – and Proust’s room (number 414) has been recreated with period furnishing and décor! In the mountainous regions the maps have bold, very effective relief shading, with a large number of names of peaks, passes, and other topographic features. miles inland including Caen and Falaise, plus the area to the east including the valley of the River Dives.