Britain and France in Two World Wars: Truth, Myth and Memory

ISBN-13: 9781441130396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 232 str.

Robert Tombs;Emile Chabal

Opis

France and Britain, indispensable allies in two world wars, remember and forget their shared history in contrasting ways. The book will examine 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.

Recenzje

The contributions offer a vivid illustration of how the same event can yield sharply divergent memories in two neighbouring countries. Robert Boyce www.histoire-politique.fr

Spis treści

General Introduction: Robert Tombs Part I - The First World War Introduction: Gary Sheffield 1. Why Allies: Necessity or Folly? John Keiger2. Sacrifice and Slaughter: Two Armies, Two Wars? William Philpott3. The Push to Victory, 1918: The Allied Contributions, Elizabeth Greenhalgh Part II - The Second World WarIntroduction: Emile Chabal and Akhila Yechury 4. 1940: The French Army and the BEF, Martin Alexander 5. The British, the Free French, and Resistance, Sebastien Albertelli 6. Liberation: The British Contribution, Olivier WieviorkaPart III - Remembering and ForgettingIntroduction: Philip Bell 7. The First World War, Jay Winter8. The Second World War, Robert Frank 9. An Overview, David ReynoldsIndex

O autorze

Robert Tombs is Professor of French History, University of Cambridge, UK Emile Chabal is a Chancellor's Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.