Deserves More Attention Than the Fall of Rome

 We have just suffered such a defeat as no one would have believed possible. On whom or on what should the blame be laid? On the French system of parliamentary government, say our generals; on the rank and file of the fighting services, on the English, on the fifth column - - in short, on any and everybody but themselves.

- From Strange Defeat by Marc Bloch, an analysis of the fall of France in 1940