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Summary:The outbreak of war found France, under Edouard Daladier, better prepared than Britain militarily but less united politically. General mobilisation of her vast conscript army was ordered immediately. But French military thinking was primarily defensive. It had no way of meeting the rapid Germany thrust that was to take them past the strongly fortified Maginot Line. The exc
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