Phony War

In August 1944 the first clashes took place by the Siegfried Line. The section of the line now fought over the most was the Hürtgenwald area in the Eifel, 20 Km (13 miles) southeast of Aachen. The battle in this confusing, heavily forested area claimed the lives of more than 10,000 U.S. soldiers; the German death toll is not exactly known, but may have been around 12,000. After the Battle of Hürtgenwald, the Battle of the Bulge began, starting at the area south of the Hürtgenwald, between Monschau and the Luxembourgian town of Echt ...

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Western betrayal - Dictionaries. Betrayal - Wiktionary Betrayal - Cambridge Dictionary Betrayal - Dictionary.com ...

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Mussolini, having been rescued by German paratroopers from his prison, tried to flee Italy to Switzerland with a German anti-air battalion. However, partisans recognized him and he was executed, along with his mistress, and their bodies were strung up in Milan and kicked around in the streets. Hitler, learning of Mussolini's death, realized that the end had finally come. He remained in Berlin, even as it was encircled and slowly taken by the Soviets. On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler, with his wife of one day, Eva Braun, committed suici ...

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A similar feeling occurred among the supporters of the Second Spanish Republic. During the Spanish Civil War, the democratic countries had taken to neutrality instead of supporting the democratically-elected republic against the rebels supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. At most, the people of France, Belgium and Britain took refugee children, and some foreign volunteers, mostly leftists, joined the International Brigades. Only the Soviet Union offered military help to the Republic. To this perception, they added the treatment of republican soldiers that fled to France who w ...

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With the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944, war in the west broke out once more and a new situation arose. On August 24, 1944 Hitler gave a directive for the renewed construction of the Siegfried Line. 20,000 forced labourers and members of the German National Labour Service (Reichsarbeitsdienst, RAD) most of whom were 14 to 16-year-old boys, attempted to reequip the line for defence purposes. Local people were also called in to carry out this kind of work, mostly building anti-ta ...

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See also: History of Czechoslovakia#Before WWII (1938 – 1939) and later sections Unlike many of its neighbours, Czechoslovakia formed a stable republic after World War I and remained the only truly democratic state in Central Europe. However, territorial disputes with Germany, Poland and Hungary made the international situation of the state critical in the late thirties. The League of Nations was seen as the main guarantor of peace. To protect against possible threats, Czechoslovakia signed numerous international treaties including military alliances with France, Yugoslavia, and Romania. ...

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History of the British Army - Organisation. Due to the Indian Mutiny (1857-58), the Army was extremely overstretched, to such an extent that Canadian volunteers raised a regiment for the British Army for serve in India, titled the 100th (or Prince of Wales's Royal Canadians) Regiment of Foot; it did not, however, see service there. In the aftermath of the Mutiny, control of India was transferred from the East India Company to the Crown. The so-called 'European' regiments of the East India Company were transferred ...

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Starting in 1919, it was the policy of France to construct a cordon sanitaire (security cordon) in Eastern Europe that was designed to keep both the Germans and Soviets out. The crushing of Béla Kun's Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 by the combined forces of Romania, Czechoslovakia, and France was an early example of cordon sanitaire in action. In 1921, France signed a defensive alliance with Poland committing both states to come to each other's aid in the event of one of the powers being attacked by another European power. In 1924, the French signed a similar defen ...

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The American War of Independence began in 1775 when the Thirteen Colonies rose up against British rule. Many Americans, however, sought to remain with the British Empire and duly fought for the British, and were known as Loyalists. Five American units were placed on the regular establishment, known as the American Establishment (formed in 1779) though there were many other Loyalist units. Upon the independence of America and the end of the war in 1783, many of the Loyalist forces fled north to Canada, where many subsequently served with the ...

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Contrary to many countries reborn after the World War I, Finland remained neutral and did not enter direct military alliances. The League of Nations and the international community were seen as warrants of peace, but the governments of Finland saw their main warrant lay in posing no danger to the Soviet Union. In March-April 1938, Joseph Stalin decided that the next target of German expansion following Austria would be Finland, and placed intense pressure on the Finnish government to allow the Soviet Union extra-territorial rights in and ter ...

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In 1986, Suzanna Hamilton starred, opposite Peter MacNicol, as a Cockney bride living with a 1940s Pennsylvania coal-mining family in the well-received television drama, Johnny Bull, which featured supporting performances from Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, and Kathy Bates. She also appeared as Emily Barkstone in the second of the three BBC miniseries based on Barbara Taylor Bradford's popular "Emma Harte" novels about the fortunes of a retail empire and the machinations of the business élite across three generations: Hold the D ...

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Prior to the English Civil War in 1642, there was no standing army in England or Scotland. Men were raised by the King when required, a development of the feudal concept of fief (in which a lord was obliged to raise a certain quota of knights, men-at-arms and yeomanry under greater control of the King). After the Civil War and establishment of a Republic, parliament assumed control of the Army, and standing companies based on Cromwell's New Model Army formed the concept of the first regiments. The Restoration of Charles II saw the Model Army ...

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Successes in the North African desert left the Allies in complete control of the Mediterranean's southern shore and using this as a springboard Allied Forces Headquarters AFHQ started to plan an attack into what Winston Churchill referred to as the 'soft underbelly' of Europe. The Allies first action was the capture of the island of Sicily, called Operation Husky, on 10 July 1943. This brought to the fire a growing dissatisfaction with Mussolini. He was deposed on July 25, 1943, by the Fascist Grand Council, and placed under house arr ...

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France declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939 following the German invasion of Poland. After the eight month Phony War the Germans launched their offensive in the west on 10 May 1940. Within days, it became clear that French forces were overwhelmed and that military collapse was inevitable. Government and military leaders, deeply shocked by the debacle, engaged in debate over how to proceed. Many officials, including the Prime Minister, Paul Reynaud, wanted to move the government to French territories in North Africa, and continue the w ...

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Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II - Disaster in Malaya and Singapore. The outbreak of war in the Far East found the United Kingdom critically overstretched. British forces in the area were weak in almost all arms. The first major setback to British power in the region was the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse on 10 December 1941 by Japanese land-based planes. The sinking was triply significant. It represented the loss of the last Allied capital ships in t ...

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Following the Allied invasions of France, Pétain and his ministers were taken to Germany by the German forces where they established a government in exile at Sigmaringen. In 1945, many members of the Vichy government were arrested and charged with high treason and other crimes. Trials ensued and some, including Laval and Darnand, were executed. Pétain was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Others fled or went into hiding, such as Jacques de Bernonville who went to Québec, while some were not pros ...

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The combined bomber offensive was born out of the need to strike back at Germany during the years when the United Kingdom had no forces on the continent of Europe. Initially the bomber forces available for attacks were small, and the rules of engagement were so restricted that any attacks that were made were mostly ineffective. However, once France had fallen in the summer of 1940 that began to change. During and after the Battle of Britain, bomber forces pounded the invasion fleets assembling in channel ports. However, they also flew ...

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Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II - Operation Overlord. Main article Battle of Normandy On 6 June 1944, the invasion of Normandy, the largest amphibious assault in history, took place. It involved the landing of five assault divisions from the sea and three assault divisions by parachute and glider. Of those, one airborne and two seaborne divisions were British. The British airborne formation involved was 6th Airborne Division, with the British seaborne division ...

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Nineteen eighty-five proved to be a very active year for Suzanna Hamilton. She starred in British playwright David Hare's film, Wetherby, opposite Vanessa Redgrave. In this film, Hamilton's character, Karen Creasy, is the sullen former friend of a young man who committed suicide: she is meant to be a personification of the emotional void at the heart of contemporary British life with all its repressions, denials, and disaf ...

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A little-known British military operation took place in Greece in late 1944 and early 1945. After being ignominiously ejected from Greece by the Germans in 1941, and bundled out of the Aegean again in 1943 in the aftermath of an attempt to take advantage of the Italian surrender by occupying the Dodecanese Islands, British forces returned to Greece in strength in the autumn of 1944. Operations against the Germans themselves were confined strictly to harassment of retreating forces. The retreat had been forced upon the Germans by the a ...

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