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    Back on topic

     
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    He was just looking for an argument and failed miserably, he had lessons off archers <laugh>
     
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    Nice edit Coustard. Ice not cut though.
     
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    I would have thought that my saying that the Tatra mountains were easily defensible would have been a good clue as to a likely military strategy for the Czechs.
     
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    Czechoslovakia was handed to the Germans (Sudentenland part) via the Munich pact which the French and English signed.
     
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    Linked to the Munich Agreement granted. However Chamberlain referred to the Czechs as " People in a far away country, f which we know nothing." Edward Benes the Czech leader appealed to Britain and France for support. Had that been given in the way that it was to Poland ( A flat country far less defensible) then the Nazis would have had to fight for Czechoslovakia. The Czechs were much better equipped to defend themselves than Poland and a protracted war would have meant Germany leaving The Rhineland very lightly defended. The Wehrmacht was essentially a horse drawn army in 1939. Moving artillery in mountainous country would have been very tricky. A missed opportunity to whack the Nazis early doors.
     
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    Have you read the Ladybird, big book, of World war 2?

    You're about to get an extract.
     
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    Haha. Well I did spend three years at Uni and another 43 afterwards studying the subject, so I may have a small advantage there.
     
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    Is it available on Amazon?
     
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    If a blind eye had not been turned to remilitarisaion of The Rhineland in 1936, the annexation of both Austria and Czechoslovakia may conceivably never have happened.
     
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    There's no ladybirds in the Amazon mate. The parrots eat em all (along with the aspirin)
     
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    Don't listen to him Fingers, he's in denile.
     
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    "An attack from the west would have been very difficult to defend for Germany."
    Are the Germans attacking or defending?
     
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    Yes you did! You invaded Poland!
     
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