WI in the Great War the British send troops too late into France too late to push the Germans back at the Battle of Marne? If France surrendered once Paris was taken what situation is the UK in? Eastern front remains the same situation with the Russians attempting constant offensives.
I'm not sure Paris could be taken. Conquering it street by street would surely require more manpower than the German army could spare from the rest of the front.
What you might get (istr a big thread about this) is a Western Front much deeper inside France than OTL's, and running right through the suburbs of the capital. I hate to think what Paris would look like after a few years of that. Probably a bigger version of Ypres.
I'm not sure Paris could be taken. Conquering it street by street would surely require more manpower than the German army could spare from the rest of the front.
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For that to happen you would have to delay the british troops arriving for (more ?) than a months at least.WI in the Great War the British send troops too late into France too late to push the Germans back at the Battle of Marne? If France surrendered once Paris was taken what situation is the UK in? Eastern front remains the same situation with the Russians attempting constant offensives.
You don't have to shell Paris. Either flank it and cut it off or get within artillery range and shell it to death
How about starving it into submission a la Leningrad in WW2. OK so Leningrad did not fall but better that than Stalingrad. Besides it is a first class sink for French resources. It means that Germany can take other parts of France and so win the Great War that way.It was surrounded by a network of old forts and new entrenchements the Territorials had been digging in the preceeding week. Unless the French fail to occupy and defend that it would have been a tough battle.
Other way round is much more realistic.Besides it is a first class sink for French resources.