[Homer_J_Simpson]

You beat me.

"Superficial," indeed!

[abb]

What we are learning is that the “Phony War” (also called the Twilight War by Winston Churchill, der Sitzkrieg (sitting war) in German) was hardly that for the Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine.

The winter of 1939-40 was fought in deadly earnest on the high seas between the two and was for them as real as it gets.