After the horrors of the frontline "My spirits were instantly lifted when I saw the glorious Cathedral and felt much happier" TNH Smith Pearse from his lecture notes on the town of Saint Omer 1917. Saint-Omer and the British Connection takes you on a rich historical journey spanning eleven centuries, and one that has never been written about before. Saint-Omer, an attractive and once important ville fortifiee in northern France has an extraordinary British thread that weaves through each century. It was a cache for the fleeing Saint Thomas Becket in 1165. It grew rich and powerful as the...