Britain And France In Two World Wars
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Author | : Robert Tombs |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144116619X |
France and Britain, indispensable allies in two world wars, remember and forget their shared history in contrasting ways. The book examines key episodes in the relationship between the two countries, including the outbreak of war in 1914, the battles of the Somme and Verdun, the Fall of France in 1940, Dunkirk, and British involvement in the French Resistance and the 1944 Liberation. The contributors discuss how the two countries tend to forget what they owe to each other, and have a distorted view of history which still colours and prejudices their relationship today, despite government efforts to build a close political and military partnership.
Author | : Arnold Wolfers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Author | : René Albrecht-Carrié |
Publisher | : Librairie Droz |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Europe |
ISBN | : 9782600042765 |
Author | : Arnold Wolfers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Author | : Daniel A. Baugh |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317895460 |
The Seven Years War was a global contest between the two superpowers of eighteenth century Europe, France and Britain. Winston Churchill called it “the first World War”. Neither side could afford to lose advantage in any part of the world, and the decisive battles of the war ranged from Fort Duquesne in what is now Pittsburgh to Minorca in the Mediterranean, from Bengal to Quèbec. By its end British power in North America and India had been consolidated and the foundations of Empire laid, yet at the time both sides saw it primarily as a struggle for security, power and influence within Europe. In this eagerly awaited study, Daniel Baugh, the world’s leading authority on eighteenth century maritime history looks at the war as it unfolded from the failure of Anglo-French negotiations over the Ohio territories in 1784 through the official declaration of war in 1756 to the treaty of Paris which formally ended hostilities between England and France in 1763. At each stage he examines the processes of decision-making on each side for what they can show us about the capabilities and efficiency of the two national governments and looks at what was involved not just in the military engagements themselves but in the complexities of sustaining campaigns so far from home. With its panoramic scope and use of telling detail this definitive account will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in military history or the history of eighteenth century Europe.
Author | : Arnold Wolfers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Arnold Wolfers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Author | : Robert Tombs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2010-12-07 |
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ISBN | : 9781446426241 |
Author | : Elizabeth Greenhalgh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2005-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139448471 |
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.
Author | : Talbot C. Imlay |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199261222 |
This work offers a systematic comparison of how two countries, Britain and France, responded to the possibility and then reality of total war by examining developments in three dimensions: strategic, domestic political, and political economic.