Yes we can joke about the French surrendering, but it was the Brits who swam home across the channel, with the French covering their rout. Then they surrendered.
I give the Brits credit for fighting all these years, they saved Europe. The Germans defeated both the French and Brits in France, not something you hear the Brits brag about. France was lost, any way you want to slice it. Why else would the Brits have left?
The Brits knew it and packed for home, leaving all their equipment behind. The French covered their retreat.
I don't want to boost the French: I saw their war museum in Paris and if you believed what you saw in there they won the war pretty much by themselves, a load of bullshit. But I want to give the French that fought their due: Without them the Brits would have lot most their army and would have been screwed too.
Yes we can joke about the French surrendering, but it was the Brits who swam home across the channel, with the French covering their rout. Then they surrendered.
I give the Brits credit for fighting all these years, they saved Europe. The Germans defeated both the French and Brits in France, not something you hear the Brits brag about. France was lost, any way you want to slice it. Why else would the Brits have left? The Brits knew it and packed for home, leaving all their equipment behind. The French covered their retreat.
I don't want to boost the French: I saw their war museum in Paris and if you believed what you saw in there they won the war pretty much by themselves, a load of bullshit. But I want to give the French that fought their due: Without them the Brits would have lot most their army and would have been screwed too.