If you think the men who fought for France in 1940 were cowardly, then I suspect you have little actual knowledge of history and few actual friends in France. ...France lost 90,000 soldiers in 1 month during the German attack...if you'll recall, only the evacuation at Dunkirk saved the BEF from a similar fate...one of the most insulting narratives of WW2 is that the French army   collapsed out of cowardice