[weikel]

I like Tuchman's work in a Distant Mirror but I don't believe it the French attacked early in the war into Alsace Lorraine and got their a** kicked. America bailed both the British and French out in WWI they were about to lose( in contrast to WWII where our supplies were essential but our men weren't the commies had already beaten Hitler on the Eastern Front before D-Day).

[1rudeboy]

Tuchman spends a lot of time explaining how the French General Staff bungled the Alsace campaign, but to her the key was the denial of Paris to the Germans, which the French did mostly on their own, and while seriously outnumbered.

[MARETHLINE]

You are so wrong, the British didn't need any help from you yanks in the First World War, you arrived to late on the scene to do anything; we had rolled over the German lines more than anyone else especially when in the end in 1918 us Brits captured more German prisoners (200,000) than the French, US and Belgians combined and the French had fours times as big an army as the British had, so it shows that the French were completely useless in that war!!