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The first of a two volume study, which will analyse the complex relationship between Britain and France in the twentieth century: a relationship which has been crucial to European politics and to both World Wars.This volume (fully self-contained) runs from the period of intense imperial rivalry at the turn of the century to the Fall of France. Philip Bell discusses diplomatic, economic and military policy, combining absorbing narrative with revealing commentary about the two countries.
The first of a two volume study, which will analyse the complex relationship between Britain and France in the twentieth century: a relationship which has been crucial to European politics and to both World Wars.This volume (fully self-contained) runs from the period of intense imperial rivalry at the turn of the century to the Fall of France. Philip Bell discusses diplomatic, economic and military policy, combining absorbing narrative with revealing commentary about the two countries.
Why is France so often relegated to the background in studies of international relations? This book seeks to redress this balance, exploring the relationship between the United States, United Kingdom and France, and its wider impact on the theory and practice of international relations.
Extending his 1996 account of relations between the two European powers from 1900 to 1940, Bell begins with the fall of France in World War II, and ends with the opening of the Channel Tunnel. As in the earlier period, he points out how their relationship was often defined and dictated by the relationship of each to Germany, as Britain lost her empire and suffered internal division and France enjoyed regeneration and self-confidence. Paper edition (28920-3) $19.67. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
INTRODUCTION "RIVAL, ENEMY, ALLY, FRIEND" -- Chapter 1 L'Entente est mort. Vive l'Entente! -- Chapter 2 Historical Baggage -- PART ONE HITLER'S DIKTAT -- Chapter 3 Fleet and Empire -- Chapter 4 Modus Vivendi or Collaboration? -- Chapter 5 Unfriendly States -- Chapter 6 Occupied Territory -- Chapter 7 "Ici Londres" -- PART TWO "SOMEWHAT DIFFICULT PEOPLE" -- Chapter 8 The Awkward General -- Chapter 9 Mutual Frustration -- Chapter 10 "A shabby but inevitable compromise" -- Chapter 11 Death of an Admiral -- Chapter 12 Kings of Brentford -- Chapter 13 "C'est de Gaulle" -- Chapter 14 Choosing Roosevelt -- Chapter 15 Down the Champs Elysée together -- Chapter 16 Drafting a balance sheet.
Germany's invasion of France in August 1914 represented a threat to the great power status of both Britain and France. The countries had no history of co-operation, yet the entente they had created in 1904 proceeded by trial and error, via recriminations, to win a war of unprecedented scale and ferocity. Elizabeth Greenhalgh examines the huge problem of finding a suitable command relationship in the field and in the two capitals. She details the civil-military relations on each side, the political and military relations between the two powers, the maritime and industrial collaboration that were indispensable to an industrialised war effort and the Allied prosecution of war on the western front. Although it was not until 1918 that many of the war-winning expedients were adopted, Dr Greenhalgh shows that victory was ultimately achieved because of, rather than in spite of, coalition.
PMH Bell's famous book is a comprehensive study of the period and debates surrounding the European origins of the Second World War. He approaches the subject from three different angles: describing the various explanations that have been offered for the war and the historiographical debates that have arisen from them, analysing the ideological, economic and strategic forces at work in Europe during the 1930s, and tracing the course of events from peace in 1932, via the initial outbreak of hostilities in 1939, through to the climactic German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 which marked the descent into general conflict. Written in a lucid, accessible style, this is an indispensable guide to the complex origins of the Second World War.
This is the second volume in Philip Bell's study of Franco-British relations in the twentieth century It covers the period from the Fall of France in 1940 to the opening of the Channel Tunnel. Philip Bell views the half-century as a long separation - with France committed early on to a new concept of Europe, in partnership with Germany, whilst Britain stood apart. The tensions and resentments it has generated have kept French/British relations at the very heart of the burning question of Britain's place in Europe. Yet the story has another side, to which Philip Bell also does justice. Much has been achieved by the two countries together and alongside their European partners. For all their divergencies and antagonisms, the French and British know and understand each other better today than at any other time in their modern histories and all these developments are fully explored in Philip Bell's engrossing and often amusing, account.