Britain, France and the Entente Cordiale Since 1904

A. Capet

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN:
  9781349284474
  9780230009028
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230207004
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

This collection gathers many of the best-known names in the field of Anglo-French relations and provides an authoritative survey of the field. Starting with the crucial period of the First World War and ending with the equally complex question of the second Iraq War, the study has an emphasis on British perceptions of the Entente.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: ‘Britain’s most enduring Special Relationship’
• 1 ‘French people have a peculiar facility for being misrepresented’: British Perceptions of France at War, 1914–18
• 2 Lloyd George and Clemenceau: Prima Donnas in Partnership
• 3 Behind the Façade of the Entente Cordiale after the Great War
• 4 Entente and Argument: Britain, France and Disarmament, 1899–1934
• 5 British Communists and Anglo-French Relations, 1914–45
• 6 Churchill and de Gaulle: Makers and Writers of History
• 7 The Singularity of Suez in Post-War Anglo-French Relations: Une Entente mal entendue
• 8 De Gaulle and Anglo-French Mésentente, 1958–67
• 9 Franco-British Relations during the Wilson Years, 1964–70
• 10 From Heath to Thatcher, 1970–90
• 11 A Complex Alliance: The Explosive Chemistry of Franco-British Relations in the Post-Cold War World
• Index