1000 YEARS OF ANNOYING THE FRENCH
Apologies in advance then if it was deemed "insensitive" to the French - but I've just finished a brilliant book by Stephen Clarke - "1000 years of Annoying the French" - It's well researched and very funny and seeks to explain the "love hate relationship that exists between the two countries and that our versions of the same events "are like two completely different stories" - It starts from 1066 and goes through to the present day - but one fact I didn't know which may interest forum members concerns D-Day. I knew something of the Allied distrust for De Gaulle and his anger about being excluded from the D Day planning - but I didn't realise the full extent of the French involvement in the actual landings . So here's a question for you - out of the initial landing force of some 156,000 troops on D Day - how many were French ?
I'll give you the answer later today - no googling !
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