Britain and France in two world wars : truth, myth and memory /
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 i...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Editors; Two Great Peoples; Notes; Part 1: The First World War; Introduction; Notes; Chapter 1: Crossed Wires, 1904-14; National requirements from Franco-British collaboration, 1905-14; Cultural crossed wires; Militarization and more misunderstanding in the Entente; Remembrance of alliance past; Notes; Chapter 2: Unequal Sacrifice? Two Armies, Two Wars?; Notes; Chapter 3: 1918: The Push to Victory; The balance sheet at the start of 1918; German spring offensives, March-July 1918; Allied counteroffensives. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The logistics of supplyConclusion; Notes; Part 2: The Second World War; Introduction; Imperial entanglements: Suspicion, hostility and dependence; Imperial pride and post-war decline; Notes; Chapter 4: Dunkirk in Military Operations, Myths and Memories1; Roads to Dunkirk; Recriminations; Representations; Tangled memories; Notes; Chapter 5: The British, the Free French and the Resistance; Multiple actors in a three-way relationship; In search of the Resistance: The Free French and the British in 1940-41; Preparing for D Day; Conclusion: Shared experiences, divergent narratives; Notes. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 6: The British and the Liberation of FranceBeginnings; Disappointment in the East; The reasons for British failure; The Liberation and after; Britain: A junior partner?; Notes; Part 3: Remembering and Forgetting; Introduction; Notes; Chapter 7: Cultural Divergences in Patterns of Remembering the Great War in Britain and France; Glory; Futility; Calendars of commemoration; Emphases, occlusions, omissions; Memory or la mémoire?; Notes; Chapter 8: The Second World War through French and British Eyes; The 'phoney war' or the forgotten recovery. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a From the shock of defeat to the '1940 syndrome'The British, Vichy and de Gaulle: Remembering and forgetting; The forgotten role of the British in the Liberation of France; Yalta: A French victory without de Gaulle; A forgotten French capitulation: Syria in May 1945; Conclusion: The politics of forgetting; Notes; Chapter 9: France, Britain and the Narrative of Two World Wars; Notes; Index. | |
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