Anglo-French Defence Relations Between the Wars

by Alexander, Martin S.; Philpott, William J.

• ISBN13: 9780333754535
• ISBN10: 0333754530
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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 analyze key themes in Anglo-French inter-war defense politics - disarmament, intelligence and imperial defense - and joint military, political and economic preparations for a second world war.

Author Biography

Martin S. Alexander is in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

William J. Philpott is Lecturer in Military History at King’s College London.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Philip Bell
Acknowledgements	ix
Notes on Contributors	x
List of Abbreviations	xii
Introduction: Choppy Channel Waters -- the Crests and Troughs of Anglo-French Defence Relations between the Wars	1	(25)
Martin S. Alexander
William J. Philpott
Growing Respect: the Royal Navy and the Marine Nationale, 1918--39	26	(23)
Anthony Clayton
An Argument without End: Britain, France and the Disarmament Process, 1925--34	49	(23)
Andrew Webster
Britain, France and the Emerging Italian Threat, 1935--38	72	(20)
Reynolds M. Salerno
France, Britain and the Making of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1938--39	92	(29)
Talbot Imlay
Intelligence in Anglo-French Relations before the Outbreak of the Second World War	121	(36)
Peter Jackson
Joe Maiolo
Imperial Defence or Diversionary Attack? Anglo-French Strategic Planning in the Near East, 1936--40	157	(29)
Martin Thomas
Preparing to Feed Mars: Anglo-French Economic Co-ordination and the Coming of War, 1937--40	186	(23)
Martin S. Alexander
The Benefit of Experience? The Supreme War Council and the Higher Management of Coalition War, 1939--40	209	(18)
William J. Philpott
Index	227