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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (229199)5/1/2007 12:36:08 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
There's a huge chasm between "all but won" and "won" when you are talking about an indigenous enemy who goes to ground. The brutality of the conflict in the service of the "all but won" killed it for France. I don't really think you can say that French reaction to the excesses of the French military in Algeria are not part of the war. Where the military acts in such a way it loses the support of the people, the military has failed. IMO

You can of course try to say France would have won. I don't agree.



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (229199)5/1/2007 1:27:05 AM
From: c.hinton  Respond to of 281500
 
stabbed in the back..."It was Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg himself, the leading German hero of the war, who told the National Assembly, “As an English general has very truly said, the German army was ‘stabbed in the back.’”http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/06/0081080


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