Victory Through Coalition: Britain and France During the First World War

ISBN-13: 9780521853842 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 322 str.

Elizabeth Greenhalgh

Opis

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 cooperation, 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 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 industrialized war effort and the Allied prosecution of war on the western front.

Recenzje

"...well-researched account of Franco-British coalition warfare that would be of interest to historians and general readers alike." -Werner D. Lippert, The Historian

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Coalition warfare and the Franco-British alliance; 2. Command 1914–15; 3. The Battle of the Somme, 1916; 4. The liaison services, 1914–16; 5. The allied response to the German submarine; 6. Command 1917; 7. The creation of the supreme war council; 8. The German offensives of 1918 and the crisis in command; 9. The allies counterattack; 10. Politics and bureaucracy of supply; 11. Coalition: a defective mechanism?