>"We fought at Les Eparges, at Verdun, at Noyon, at Saint-Quentin, at the Somme with the British, which means without the British, and in the Nivelle's open slaughterhouse at the Chemin des Dames. (...) I'm 22 and I'm scared"
What did Jean Giono mean when he wrote that in his diary in 1917?
Were the British really such bad allies?
Perhaps, but it was the British(and empire) army that broke through the Hindenburg line in 1918, not the French, perhaps they were scared
Nice try but Americans are the one who made the Hundred Days Offensive possible
Pic related, we were as numerous as Brits, and with a much higher moral and quality
If they were such bad allies then maybe they should have just packed up and gone home and left the French to deal with the Germans themselves.
>2.000.000 US troops in France
>only 25% of them saw real shit combat
>Americans are the one who made the Hundred Days Offensive possible
no you did not
Too bad they couldn't because
>muh evil Germany is building a navy! How dare they?!!
>muh evil Germany will steal our African shitholes!!
>British revisionism in action
Are you even allowed to be on Veeky Forums Nigel?
Except in the real quote he says the ENGLISH, not the British
Basically he meant that Englanders are faggots while Scots are the greatest allies one can have
Ah yes you're right, they could've launched the offensive whenever they wanted, they just happened to wait for the Americans out of the kindness of their hearts.
>The French were scared
The French were exhausted after taking the brunt of the casualties between 1914-1917 due to terrible leadership in higher eschelons and a bad operational culture (cran). Then they mutinied, effectively negating any chance of meaningful offensive action for a while.
Of course the individual poilu was scared. He had been watching his buddies get killed for three long years with nothing to show for it, and see those holes in his unit get replaced by ever younger, ever less well trained new draftees. The leadership was likely scared as well. How confident could a general be of his forces when they were exhausted and halfway to combat ineffective before an offensive could even start?
2 million troops in the AEF
A quarter of them are training, somewhere in France.
Half are support personnel, supplying not just their own men but also doing logistical work for the French, who have been bled white.
The final quarter are at the front. 500,000 men amounts to 25 fully equipped and manned square infantry divisions.
Did Great Britain have 25 extra divisions lying around in 1918?
>WE
WUZ
RELEVANTZ
Kill yourself, samefag.
WW1 was such a shitshow you'd have to be a fucking robot not to be scared
kill yourself yourself
They certainly were relevant, but the spring offensive was stopped without large numbers of Americans present, and to say that an entirely green army was of much higher quality than veteran forces is abjectly stupid /int/tardation.
forgot pic
the only reason Spring Offensive was launched was because of those American troops incoming
without it, Germans could have easily went on the defensive with the reinforcements coming from the East and the blockade would be less effective since they just acquired resources from the East
The blockade was still highly effective.
Frogs always need to have back up or they get btfo into the stratosphere. That's how it goes.
KYS you're self my guy
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You're confusing with Brits m8
The French, the Spanish, the Russians, the Germans....all had their moments fighting alone against all
But not the Brits, they always join the most numerous side
>Germans could have easily went on the defensive with the reinforcements coming from the East
Hundreds of thousands of those reinforcements literally jumped off the fucking train, took off their uniforms and disappeared on the way to the Western Front.
The East was crawling with revolutionary Bolshevism and Anarchism, requiring millions of German troops to hold and actively subverting German rule by exposing their troops to Communist agitation.
The German economy was on the verge of collapse, their allies were collapsing, the French had huge numbers of superior tanks entering service and the Allies had finally figured out a praxis of industrial warfare which worked. Germany was not going to bleed the allies white on the defensive before collapse.