Verdun - French were crazy crazy brave!
During WWII the French soldier was betrayed by the French politicians and to some extent their military leadership.
The Italians also get an unnecessary bum rap. In WWI look at their battles in and along the Alps. The battles along the Ilonzo River which I think there might have been as many as twelve almost all of them showing the typical WWI tactic of charging through machine gun and artillery fire. Italians and Austro-Hungarians bled until there was no blood to bleed. The Italians finally collapsed at Caporetto under a combined German\Austro-Hungarian assault. I think Hemingway was in this battle as an ambulance driver. In WWII the Italians had to fight with for the most part inferior equipment and leadership on the side of someone they for the most part felt they should fighting against not allied with. Remember Fascist Italy almost came to blows with Nazi Germany over the German annexation of Austria. Many of the Fascist leadership were appalled Mussolini threw in with Hitler!
So let me get this straight... Earlier this year Rusdian TV plotted out how it’d nuke France, then repeatedly belittled Macron, then attempted to get the far right pro Putin lady elected...
And Macron still can’t find any balls?
Those WWI Italian battles in the Alps were a horror.