Spiegel Piece
An article about how the French perceive WWI and its effect on their outlook. It's an interesting piece and long (thus the lack of quotes).
France and World War I
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#1 France and World War I
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#2 Re: France and World War I
It is a long article but damn if it is a good one. It's really interesting to me as the WWI has no real impact on the American psyche, due to us only joining the war in 1917 and WWII being massively more important to us.
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#3 Re: France and World War I
Yeah, we had nothing tangible at stake in WWI. It was all Over There and we really had to get a lot of pushes to get involved. Also we just didn't sustain the casualties anywhere near on the scale of any of the European (and Commonwealth) nations involved.frigidmagi wrote:It is a long article but damn if it is a good one. It's really interesting to me as the WWI has no real impact on the American psyche, due to us only joining the war in 1917 and WWII being massively more important to us.
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"'Flammable' and 'inflammable' have the same meaning! This language is insane!"
GIVE ME COFFEE AND I WILL ALLOW YOU TO LIVE!- Frigid
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