General Juin had also a problem with his right arm, he couldn't sue it because of an injury in world war I. William II seemed to have problems...
Turkey entered war in february 1945, no ? Because it was said that the allies would have an important role in the UN so many countries declared...
I just wanted to say that the resistance role was proportionnal to the intensity and the importance of the front. In the East, the war was very...
As we say "la bataille de France, un passé qui ne passe pas.", the event we want to forget. The prisonners were the symbol of the "debacle".
Yes but we still have a problem with 1940. Just see the return of the POW of the battle of france. While the french people was celebrating the...
For the moral too, and not only for the french. Churchill had to struggle against a strong pacifist party after, but he finally won.
Every thing was more brutal and agressive in the East. In the East, the resistance was maybe stronger, but the german and soviet armies were much...
Yes but Okinawa wa tough too ( with the "cleaning" of individual holes, the kamikazes, the fierce resistance).
I didn' say that for you but some people still think the french were coward (including in France), it seems we are still too proud to accept such...
In that case, the battle of France was quite destructive.
Well, i am one of the first in my class in english. But, i've done a little mystake while posting, i am 16 years old.
Well ,actually, the divisional system is not really at its peak. They are only spearheads (the iraq war where they were only a few division). The...
-French 1st DFL and 3rd DIA and 2nd armored division -American 101th airborne, 1st infantry division -British 4th indian division (impressive) I...
I Think it was a foolish idea to attack a country of 20 millions of inhabitants when English population was 4 million. At first, french were...
I am particularly fan of the serie.
What do you think about the importance of the actions of the resistance in Eastern front?
What is your opinion about resistance in western Europe ?
He is not only a racist, he is a traitor. other things he said: "Who was courageous? de Gaulle who resisted from London or Petain who resisted...
French weren't cowards. First at war, the french fought fiercely while the situation quickly began to become desperate ( 92,000 killed and...
I thought Okinawa was bloodiest then Iwo Jima. But the pacific campaign is less brutal than the Sino-japanese war.