The Fall of France - Mark Gerges
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Marking the 75th anniversary of France’s fall to Nazi Germany in May and June 1940, Mark Gerges of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth examines what led to the defeat and the myths that still surround it. http://www.kclibrary.org/event/fall-france-mark-gerges
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I bought this book 10 years ago and I thought is was excellent, money well spent. There is another book called " The Blitzkrieg Myth ".... don't buy that one.
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the second slide in his lecture has the French total dead for WW1 as 450,000, and he refers to it .The French dead figure was 1.4 million. some "expert"
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France's failure not to go on the offensive in 1939 was it's doom.
France lost it's advantage and awaited the inevitable German attack which came in 1940 encircling Britain's led expeditionary forces and the main French armour, etc a total disaster due to poor leadership.
Adolf Hitler took the Manstein plan and it worked perfect. Yet when the tide turned Germany became unstable like Russia in WW1 revolution, civil war looked certain. Hitler escaped many attempts. Germany was an unstable state it's "people" divided. -
Nothing about 'panzer chocolate,' among other issues, ugh...
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More people on the chats should see this before making comments about "French Cowardice". I wish he could have said more on the air campaign and French fighter production. Good job for the time alotted.
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Very interesting. I don't think anyone could have predicted such an outcome for France at the beginning of WWII.
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1,6 millions victims in WW1 for the French, not 450 000.....
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very good
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An excellent presentation demonstrating Mark Gerse's expertise on the campaign which he uses brilliantly to debunk the myths that have often been accepted as fact .
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