Stories of War with Max Hastings
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The First War War Experience
I am always fascinated that the modern french people still think so well of napoleon when he lost round about 400 thousand dead from the grand army, amislic or. Lot of them were foreigners and not french. And yet, the french still think he's wonderful, whereas we're not so keen. So the idea that somehow the first war war experience was worse is wrong. If yeu went through normandy in the second ware war, the normandy campaign, not dida, which wasn't actually particularly bloody. But if you went through that experience, you went through something quite as bad as the somme or passendel. I read a lot of american women's memoir
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