The Fall of France Quotes

“This time it’s the real war; so much the better since at last we can see the end.’ ‘If you knew how confident and full of hope I am.’27 These two comments come from letters written by soldiers of the 21DI between 11 and 13 May as they headed into Belgium after the German invasion. They should remind us that the soldiers’ demoralization during the Phoney War represented not so much hostility to the war in itself as boredom caused by waiting for a war that never seemed to come.”
― Julian T. Jackson, The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940

“The room was barely half-lit. Major Navereau was repeating in a low voice the information coming in. Everyone else was silent. General Roton, the Chief of Staff, was stretched out in the armchair. The atmosphere was that of a family in which there has been a death. Georges got up quickly and came to Doumenc. He was terribly pale. ‘Our front has been broken at Sedan! There has been a collapse …’ He flung himself into a chair and burst into tears.”
― Julian T. Jackson, The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940