“Of all the wars of any century, fought by any people on any continent, none haunt me or churn my guts like the Western Front, 1914 - 1918. May they rest in peace, and may God keep them all. All of them.”
The next time FReepers refer to the French as “surrender monkeys”, or question their attitudes in WWII, remember that in WWI (the “war to end all wars”) they lost 1.7 million men. Our Civil War (in which both sides’ casualties were Americans) cost 600K.
Modern estimates of the Civil War are closer to 750,000 to 780,000. Southern Generals didn’t report casualties at the end of the war, nor executions of deserters.
“The next time FReepers refer to the French as “surrender monkeys”, or question their attitudes in WWII, remember that in WWI (the “war to end all wars”) they lost 1.7 million men. Our Civil War (in which both sides’ casualties were Americans) cost 600K.”
The French in WWI and the CSA in the Civil War each lost roughly 20% of their male population. That does not include the wounded, only the dead.
The French had to fight , it was in their own damn country.