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    Phoney War (redirect from Drôle de guerre)
    The Phoney War (French: Drôle de guerre; German: Sitzkrieg) was an eight-month period at the start of World War II during which there was only one limited...
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    sur la ligne Siegfried") met a great success during the Phoney War (Drôle de guerre). When asked about the Siegfried Line, General George S. Patton reportedly...
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    p. xviii. Moorhouse 2019, pp. 123–126. Moorhouse 2019, p. 160. "La drôle de guerre 39-40" [The Phony War 39-40]. Ministére Des Armées. Retrieved 22 September...
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  • "Phony Wars" (French: Film Annonce du Film qui n’existera Jamais: “Drôles de Guerres” ) is a 2023 French-Swiss avant-garde essay short film directed by...
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    French). 33 (3): 295ff. Streicher, Félix (2019). "Une drôle de petite armée in der drôle de guerre: Die luxemburgische Force Armée zwischen September 1939...
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    action during World War II: The "Phoney War" of 1939–1940, also called drôle de guerre in France, dziwna wojna in Poland (both meaning "Strange War"), or...
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    which he had most recently written an article in 1937. Known as the drôle de guerre in French. Notwithstanding his respect for British historians, says...
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  • Fink, "Marc Bloch and the drôle de guerre Prelude to the '"Strange Defeat'" p 46 Fink, Carole. "Marc Bloch and the drôle de guerre prelude to the 'Strange...
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  • Unmade Film 'Drôles de Guerres'". Deadline. Archived from the original on 10 May 2023. Retrieved 10 May 2023. "Retrospective". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved...
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    kept a defensive stance: this was called the Phoney War in Britain or Drôle de guerre — the funny sort of war — in France. It did not prevent the German...
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    Luxembourg in World War II (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    28 October 2023 Streicher, Félix (1 July 2019). "Une drôle de petite armée in der drôle de guerre: Die luxemburgische Force Armée zwischen September 1939...
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    Freikorps (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    forward of the Maginot Line during the period known as the Phoney War (Drôle de Guerre). They were tasked with attacking German troops guarding the Siegfried...
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  • Year Book 1951, p. 472. Streicher, Félix (2019). "Une drôle de petite armée" in der drôle de guerre. Die luxemburgische Force Armée zwischen September 1939...
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    bon chasseur pour la "Drôle de Guerre"" [The Epic of the Morane Saulnier 406, Part 4: A Good Fighter for the Phony War]. Le Fana de l'Aviation (in French)...
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    Paris in World War II (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    After eight months of relative calm (known as the Phoney War, La drôle de guerre) on the Western Front, the Germans struck France on 10 May, 1940, bypassing...
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  • declaration of war on Germany—17:00 on 3 September 1939 Phoney War, or drôle de guerre ("strange war"), the name given to the period of time in Western Europe...
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    Battle of France (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Offensive, a period of inaction called the Phoney War (the French Drôle de guerre, joke war or the German Sitzkrieg, sitting war) set in between the...
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    worker ... articulate on the present as well as the past". Known as the drôle de guerre in French. Notwithstanding his respect for British historians, says...
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  • mid-September and the following spring; it was the Phoney War in Britain or Drôle de guerre—the funny sort of war—in France. Britain tried several peace feelers...
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  • au Japon: La peur vaincue ou La guérison de Clémentine 26. La guerre des Grouillants 27. La drôle de guerre 28. La mort au bout du monde 29. La ligne...
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  • in 1940 (Oxford U.P., 1949), p 36 Carole Fink, "Marc Bloch and the drôle de guerre Prelude to the '"Strange Defeat'" p 46 Robert Gildea, Fighters in the...
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  • Reine Albemarle ou le dernier touriste (Gallimard, 1991). Carnets de la drôle de guerre [de] (New edition increased by a new notebook, Gallimard, 1995). Further...
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    Philippe. (2015) "De la “drôle de guerre” à la “guerre-éclair”. Affrontement, genèse et effets de deux conceptions différentes de la temporalité en 1939–1940...
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  • by roughly nine-months of what often was called the "phony war" or "drôle de guerre," the inevitability of coming conflict led most of those expatriates...
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    Stéphane Le PCF dans la guerre, Ramsay, 1980, p.56–68 A. Rossi, Les communistes pendant la drôle de guerre, les Iles d'Or, 1951, rééd Éd. de l'Albatros, 1978...
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    defeated rapidly. During the drôle de guerre, Bullitt took a pessimistic line as he warned that most of the aircraft in the Armée de l'air were obsolete, and...
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    (in French) La Guerre de l'ombre ; La Résistance en Europe, 1970. (in French) La Drôle de guerre, 1971. (in French) La Seconde Guerre Mondiale, 1972....
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    World War II by country (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    For several months, little fighting occurred in the Phoney War or drôle de guerre ("funny war"). On May 10, 1940, Germany began its attack on France...
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  • North American premiere of his short film Strange Way of Life (Extraña forma de vida). Punjab '95, by Indian director Honey Trahan, was originally announced...
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    to the People's Republic of China on February 21, 2019. "Mali : la drôle de guerre - Jeune Afrique.com". JeuneAfrique.com (in French). Retrieved 2024-02-28...
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