And garlic, the English would call the French Gallic. I would hear from time to time: "...Gallic or / and their taste of Garlic..." The Sergeant Grant Band of Brothers incident is one that might seem too strange to be true but is based on fact. In Band of Brothers' final episode takes place as World War II is ending and Easy Company's men are waiting to either be relieved of active duty or shipped out to the Pacific front. Though the fighting had stopped, men still died from other causes, such as PFC John Kanovec dying in a car accident. One such deadly incident was a shooting by "I" Company replacement Private Floyd W. Craver. I have never seen someone more arrogant than my own people. They think they know it all, but they don't. A German friend of mine once said: "The French are an inferior people who hide behind their accomplishments. I think the French deserve to hear that...

I think the English and the French love to pretend like they hate each other, but they actually secretly admire each other indeed the English were our "traditional enemy", "our most dear enemies" we have an immense panorama of conflicts and also the best military rivalry in history with them. Our relationship never changed after we slept together, this was over 20yrs ago, and we still talk on a pretty regular basis with no weirdness."But we're not talking Metropolitan France - aka l'Hexagone - here. There is no time difference between Paris and Marseille, although time does seem to go a little slower once you get to the south coast. Maybe that's the pastis. I think the French hate us here much more than we hate them. They are jealous because we have more money in these parts generally, but if the got up and did a days work they would have some too. French know how to dress: Brits have to be sensible.' True. Although some of the best tailors in the world are in London. That happened over 10 years ago. We never talked about it. It's a closed deal for me, I had to live with a huge guilt and shame, and I was so confused that night and the following days."

Ian Roger English was serving in France as an officer in the Durham Light Infantry in May 1940. In this interview, recorded by IWM in 1982, he recalls in detail his experiences of the German invasion and the Allied withdrawal into Dunkirk.Just as "Nordic Noir" captured the world's imagination at the start of this century, the past decade has seen the evolution of television's so-called "new French Wave". It's funny to say that we have a history with the French, we have a history with a lot of countries!