Originally Posted by
gr4techie
Also, it's a naive British misconception that the French are a set of surrender monkeys. In reality the French had 1.69 million deaths and 4.26 million wounded during ww1 (much more than us, so much that I got confused thinking I had put the decimal point in the wrong place) and the French do not want another repeat. Therefore agreed to an armistice with the Germans in ww2 to protect their people.
gr4 true, and like so many of our national stereotypes, full of crap. Paxman discussed this as an example of the WW1 misconceptions he wanted to explore. I think I'll be placing an order for his book after all.