re : Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys
Channel: Anekantavad
Date: 2012-02-11

DISCLAIMER: This video is in no way meant as a disrespect to US, British, or any other veterans of the Second World War or any other war. It is merely a counterargument to those who like to use terms like "cheese eating surrender monkeys" to describe the French military record. I am not glorifying war, either. War is a catastrophe, plain and simple.

Finally, this is simply a subject that interests me enormously, though in a purely academic fashion :-)

The Fall of France:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France

The Fall of Malaya and Singapore:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Campaign

The Fall of the Philippines:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines_Campaign_(1941%E2%80%931942)

Alistair Horne's "A Savage War of Peace"
https://www.nyrb.com/products/a-savage-war-of-peace?variant=1094928913