Product Description
This collection of essays reviews the politico-military relationship between Britain and France between the two World Wars. As well as examining the relationship between the two nations' armed services, the book's contributors also analyse key themes in Anglo-French inter-war defence politics - disarmament, intelligence and imperial defence - and joint military, political and economic preparations for a second world war.
About the Author
MARTIN S. ALEXANDER is Professor of International Relations at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of
Republic in Danger: General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 1933-1940, editor of
French History since Napoleon and co-editor (with Martin Evans and J.F.V.Keiger) of
The Algerian War and the French Army 1954-62: Experiences, Images, Testimonies.WILLIAM J. PHILPOTT is Lecturer in Military History, Department of War Studies, King's College London. He is the author of
Anglo-French Relations and Strategy on the Western Front 1914-18 and many chapters and articles on Anglo-French relations in the era of the two World Wars.