Phoenix breakwaters Phoenix breakwaters The Phoenix breakwaters were a set of reinforced concrete caissons built as part of the artificial Mulberry harbours that were assembled as part of the follow-up to the Normandy landings during World War II. They were constructed by civil engineering contractors around the coast of Britain. They were collected at Dungeness and Selsey, and then towed by tugboats across the English Channel and sunk to form the Mulberry harbour breakwaters replacing the initial "Gooseberry" block ships. Further caisson were added in the autumn of 1944 to re-enforce the existing structure to cope with the harbour continuing in use
The 6:41 to Paris The 6:41 to Paris The 6:41 to Paris is a short novel by Jean-Philippe Blondel. It was originally published in French as "06H41" by Buchet-Chastel in 2013. This English translation by Alison Anderson was published in 2015 by New Vessel Press. "The 6:41 to Paris" is a novel set on a train traveling to present-day Paris told through the individual memories of two characters in a dual narrative. It is an account of a past romance between Cécile Duffaut and Philippe Leduc twenty-seven years ago when the two were both twenty. The two encounter one another unexpectedly on a train