David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

the Eastern Front began to go sour for
them. They might not have wanted to
pick a fight with a group of disputatious
and disagreeable mountain folk.
But the best answer is the one that
David and Goliath has tried to make
plain—that wiping out a town or a
people or a movement is never as simple
as it looks. The powerful are not as
powerful as they seem—nor the weak as
weak. The Huguenots of Le Chambon
were descendants of France’s original
Protestant population, and the truth is
that people had tried—and failed—to
wipe them out before. The Huguenots
broke away from the Catholic Church
during the Reformation, which made
them outlaws in the eyes of the French