Cross-Channel currents : 100 hundred years of the Entente Cordiale / edited by Douglas Johnson ... [et al.].

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Johnson, Douglas, 1925-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• International relations.
• Great Britain--Foreign relations--France.
• Great Britain--Foreign relations--20th century.
• France--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
• France--Foreign relations--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the understandings and misunderstandings that make up the Entente Cordiale - the hundred-year relationship, as well as the everyday common interests and shared pleasures that give it substance.

Contents:

• Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Forewords; Introduction; A Century Ago; How the Entente Cordiale Began; Danger from the East; The German Threat; World War I, 1914 18; Testing the Entente Cordiale; Winning the War: Kitchener and Foch; Between the Wars; The 1920s; The 1930s; World War II, 1939 45; Churchill and France; De Gaulle and Britain; Churchill and de Gaulle; Britain and the French Resistance; The End of Empire, 1945 97; France and Britain Decolonise; France, Britain and Europe; Britain into Europe; The Entente in a Unipolar World
• Paris, London and WashingtonFour's a Crowd; The Entente and Mutual Understanding; A Tale of Two Cultures; The Entente Today; A View from the Quai d'Orsay; The Narrowing Channel?; France and Britain in Tomorrow's Europe; Towards a New Alliance; Envoi; Postface; About the Contributors; Index;

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 1-134-27905-1
• 1-134-27906-X
• 0-415-34661-4
• 1-280-05543-X
• 0-203-62458-0

OCLC:

475912271