In August 1944 the historic walled city of Saint-Malo, the brightest jewel of the Emerald Coast of Brittany, France, was almost totally destroyed by fire. . . . Of the 865 buildings within the walls, only 182 remained standing
and all were damaged to some degree.
—Philip Beck
It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the
ways we have without the radio.
—Joseph Goebbels
