Quand, le 3 septembre 1939, la France et la Grande-Bretagne entrent en guerre, les deux pays viennent de se doter d'un organe de décision commun pour le temps de guerre : le Conseil suprême interallié. Mais si l'on y ébauche projet sur projet...
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When France and Great-Britain entered the war on 3 September 1939, a common decision-making wartime agency had just been established : the Suprême War Council. However, of the countless plans drafted by the Council (an expédition to Salonika, mining the Rhine, assisting Finland through Petsamo or Narvik, bombing Caucasia) none was carried ont. When real opérations were started in Norway in April 1940, the resuit was a complète fiasco. This book covers almost hour by hour the often dramatic discussions of Chamberlain, Daladier, Reynaud, Churchill..., while the allied military chiefs were paralysed by their feeling of inferiority and preferred to conduct the « phoney war » rather than war itself.