French and Germans, Germans and FrenchA magnificent account of Occupied France in both the First and Second World Wars. The most difficult and often savage relationship in 20th century western Europe was between the French and the Germans. Twice, cataclysmic wars were fought out on their borders, successfully by the French in 1914 18 and unsuccessfully in 1940. Both wars led to military occupationfor the large block of northern France behind the German trenches in the First World War and