28th April 2009, 10:40 AM
Well spotted Herr Keller!
Verlaine's poem was used as a code warning for the French resistance that Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings, was about to begin -as immortalised in the film of Cornelius Ryan's book, "The Longest Day".
Verlaine's poem was used as a code warning for the French resistance that Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings, was about to begin -as immortalised in the film of Cornelius Ryan's book, "The Longest Day".