World War II’s Strangest Battle: When Americans and Germans Fought Together

Was on the homepage for a while a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8813018

Very interesting story full of awesomeness.

French politicians putting aside differences to fight.

Anti-nazi Germans fighting German nazis.

Women staying to fight to protect their trapped husbands.

And it's all in a castle, which is just the icing on this ridiculous cake.

Cool story. The book is a little dry -- it would have been a better long-form magazine article.

Just as strange is that the British Royal Navy took the lives of a thousand French sailors after France fell to Germany. This because the Brits didn't want a French ship to fall into NAZI hands.

Recently read Band of Brothers - pretty sure this story was one of the ones that is mentioned in passing towards the end of the book.

The author really likes to mention how very true and factually accurate this story is.

sure that isn't the strangest battle in WWII