[two23]

It seems so long ago, but this was my grandfathers war.
Thanks for posting the bit of History.

[Jolla]

My wife is from Paris, her grandfather was born two months after his father died at Verdune. He, 30 years later, was a farm slave laborer for the Germans for 5 years. As much as we complain about the French, we have no concept of the suffering that country endured. There were many, many villages that lost an entire generation of Les Infants in WWI.

[Tainan]

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[SunkenCiv]

France is counting much on America. From what we all have observed, we can see that France has suffered greatly. We doubt that Germany has suffered as much and more... A short mile to the left of the Meuse River, near the city of Bruelles, our job was to chase the Huns across the river. But we ran into a line of massive gun defense such as not yet seen in our war experience over here... Our men continued the advance going about 500 yards still farther. There the Germans dug in. Could advance no further. One company lost half our men that day. Our Company B lost not less than one third of its men. We were all wondering how it would ever be possible to come out of that woods alive. Some of us didn't. Most of us did.

They were right -- Germany hadn't suffered like France had. These German tactics -- giving up indefensible ground and then unleashing massive firepower to deliver terrible casualties -- had worked throughout the war against the Belgians, French, British, Italians, Russians, and Romanians.

The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War I by John Mosier paperback

[SunkenCiv]

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