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1 online resource (xviii, 314 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
I. How the Entente Cordiale began / John Keiger -- Vignettes : the burden of history / Robert Tombs -- "Vive notre bon douard!" / Isabelle Bussy -- Friendship on Display : the 1908 exhibition / Martyn Cornick -- II. The Entente and Germany / Christopher Andrew and Paul Vallet -- Vignettes : the first Moroccan crisis / Jean-Marie Le Breton -- A somewhat subtle mathematicians' entente / Jean D'Hombres -- III. World War I: 1914-1918. Testing the Entente / Jean-Jacques Becker -- Winning the War : Kitchener and Foch / William Philpott -- Vignettes : the Somme / William Philpott -- Clemenceau and Britain / Robert K. Hanks -- IV. Between the Wars. The 1920s / Maurice Vasse -- The 1930s / Rapha lle Ulrich-Pier -- V. World War II: 1939-1945. Vignette : France and Britain 1940-1943 / Pierre Messmer -- Churchill and France / Roy Jenkins -- Vignettes : Franco-British Union 1940 / Richard Mayne -- Franco-British Union : a personal view / Maurice Druon -- Churchill and De Gaulle / Francois Kersaudy -- De Gaulle and Britain / Paul-Marie de la Gorce -- Vignette : sacrifice and memory / Alistair Horne -- Britain and the French Resistance / H.R. Kedward -- Vignettes : liberating France / Hilary Footitt -- Anthony Eden / Dr Dutton -- VI. The end of empire : 1945-1997 / Marc Michel -- Vignettes : decolonisation in parallel / Pierre Messmer -- Entente clandestine : Suez 1956 / Keith Kyle -- VII. France, Britain and Europe / Jean-Rena Bernard -- Vignettes : Heath and Pompidou / Douglas Hurd -- Jean Monnet / Richard Mayne -- VIII. The end of the Cold War : Mitterand and Thatcher / Hubert Vedrine -- Vignette : The fall of the Berlin Wall / Anne Deighton -- IX. The Entente and America : Paris, London and Washington / John Newhouse -- Four's a crowd / Andre Fontaine Vignette: Franglais and Amerenglish / Miles Kington -- X. The Entente and the arts / Jean-Pierre Angrhmy -- Vignettes : French artists and writers in Britain / Douglas Johnson -- British artists and writers in France / John Ardagh -- The Auld Alliance / Helen Liddell -- The English shrine to Napoleon III / Gillian Tindall -- XI. The narrowing Channel : The Entente today / Philip Bell -- Vignettes : immigration and integration / Dani le Joly -- The Channel Tunnel / Graham Corbett -- The French in Britain / Jo lle Garriaud Maylam -- Entente Cordiale scholarships / Christopher Mallaby -- Vive le Sport! / Richard Holt -- A Renault in London / Maire Maclean -- Tourist into resident / Gillian Tindall -- XII. France and Britain in tomorrow's Europe / Jean FranTois-Poncet -- Vignette : The French for 'Entente Cordiale' / Dominique Bromberger -- Envoi / Douglas Hurd -- Postface / Jacques Viot and Lord Radice. |
Summary |
This book explores the understandings and misunderstandings that make up the Entente Cordiale - the hundred-year relationship, as well as the everyday common interests and shared pleasures that give it substance. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- France.
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Great Britain. |
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International relations. |
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France. |
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France -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Mayne, Richard, 1926-2009.
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Johnson, Douglas, 1925-
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Tombs, Robert.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Cross Channel currents. London ; New York : Routledge, ©2004 0415346614 0415346622 (DLC) 2004001265 (OCoLC)55995971 |
ISBN |
0203624580 (electronic book) |
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9780203624586 (electronic book) |
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