A Spectator editor’s account of the D-Day landings
From our UK edition
Today is the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings. On 6 June 1944, some 160,000 Allied troops crossed the Channel, as part of the largest seaborne invasion in history. One of those men was Iain Mcleod, who would go on to become editor of The Spectator and then Chancellor of the Exchequer under Edward Heath. In 1964, for the 20th anniversary of D-Day, he wrote about his experience of the invasion: I had graduated from the Staff College early in February, 1944, and had had exactly one day out of my leave when the telegram arrived. I was to report with the rank of Major to an address in Ashley Gardens, near Victoria Station. There were no other details.
