It´s April 1917, gen. nivelle´s strategy to move his liquor cabinet six inches closer to berlin has failed.
the 2nd division´s refusal to attack spreads like a wildfire. Gen. Petain, hero of Verdun, gets a stroke when hearing the news.
In June, a train with replacements -new recruits and reconvalescents- for a division is hold up at a paris station for two days.
The soldiers coming back from hospital tell the new recruits about the trench war and how their units were thrown in without any success.
Getting drunk on cheap wine, something in better supply than equipment and rations, the soldiers refuse to go to the front, but march to the war ministry.
This kicks of the french revolution of 1917, as angry workers etc. join.
the french government flees to bordeaux, riots start the other big towns. In Toulon, the navy is able to put down the revolution.
With the revolution ruptoring the lines of communication as well as supply, the front disintegrates.
Parts of the higher staffs want to keep the line with loyal units, esp. the colonials,
other want to crush the uprising.
The front-line divisions melt away as some simply think the war is lost, other want to join the revolution, the third group is concerned about the security of their families.
Incidents occur as french and british troops shoot at each other when armed french deserters try to loot british supplies.
Any thoughts on that?
the 2nd division´s refusal to attack spreads like a wildfire. Gen. Petain, hero of Verdun, gets a stroke when hearing the news.
In June, a train with replacements -new recruits and reconvalescents- for a division is hold up at a paris station for two days.
The soldiers coming back from hospital tell the new recruits about the trench war and how their units were thrown in without any success.
Getting drunk on cheap wine, something in better supply than equipment and rations, the soldiers refuse to go to the front, but march to the war ministry.
This kicks of the french revolution of 1917, as angry workers etc. join.
the french government flees to bordeaux, riots start the other big towns. In Toulon, the navy is able to put down the revolution.
With the revolution ruptoring the lines of communication as well as supply, the front disintegrates.
Parts of the higher staffs want to keep the line with loyal units, esp. the colonials,
other want to crush the uprising.
The front-line divisions melt away as some simply think the war is lost, other want to join the revolution, the third group is concerned about the security of their families.
Incidents occur as french and british troops shoot at each other when armed french deserters try to loot british supplies.
Any thoughts on that?