Anglo French Relations And Strategy On The Western Front 1914 18

Author : William J. Philpott
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349245119
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-French Relations and Strategy on the Western Front, 1914–18 written by William J. Philpott and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of Anglo-French relations and military policy making in the First World War, which considers the strategic policies and operational planning of the British and French armies in the joint campaign fought on the western front. It examines the influence of incompatible British and French strategic objectives, the role of the allies' military and political leaders and the institutional development of the military alliance, on the alliance relationship and military policy making.

Author : William James Philpott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333631256
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-French Relations and Strategy on the Western Front 1914-18 written by William James Philpott and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of Anglo-French relations and military policy making in the First World War, which considers the strategic policies and operational planning of the British and French armies in the joint campaign fought on the western front. It examines the influence of incompatible British and French strategic objectives, the role of the allies' military and political leaders and the institutional development of the military alliance, on the alliance relationship and military policy making.

Author : Roy A. Prete
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007690
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategy and Command written by Roy A. Prete and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling between the “War of Movement” in 1914 and the major attrition battles of 1916, 1915 was a critical year in the First World War. As France failed in ever-larger offensives to break through the German trenches, Britain shifted its strategy from defence of empire to total commitment to the continental war. In the second of three planned volumes, Roy Prete analyzes the political and military policies and strategies of Britain and France and their joint command relationship on the Western Front in 1915. The opposing strategies of the two governments proved to be the main determinant in the sometimes ragged relations between the French commander-in-chief, Joseph Joffre, and his British counterpart, Sir John French, as they sought to drive the German army out of France and to aid their hard-pressed Russian ally. With an impressive marshalling of evidence, Strategy and Command demonstrates that the increased British commitment to the continental war, manifested in sending Kitchener’s New Armies to France in 1915, was largely due to the disastrous situation of the Russian army on the Eastern Front and the perceived weakness of the French government. Based on extensive research in French and British political and military archives, this new in-depth study of Anglo-French military relations on the Western Front in 1915 fills a major gap in the unfolding drama of the First World War.

Author : Roy A. Prete
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773576959
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategy and Command written by Roy A. Prete and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of the First World War are often written from a British perspective, ignoring the coalition element of the conflict and the French point of view. In Strategy and Command, Roy Prete offers a major new interpretation supported by in-depth research in French archival sources. In the first of three projected volumes, Prete crafts a behind-the-scenes look at Anglo-French command relations during World War I, from the start of the conflict until 1915, when trench warfare drastically altered the situation. Drawing on extensive archival research, Prete argues that the British government's primary interest lay in the defence of the empire; the small expeditionary force sent to France was progressively enlarged because the French, especially Commander-in-Chief Joseph Joffre, dragged their British ally into a progressively greater involvement. Several crises in Anglo-French command relations derived from these competing strategic objectives. New information gleaned from French public and private archives - including private diaries - enlarge our understanding of key players in the allied relationship. Prete shows that suspicion and distrust on the part of both sides of the alliance continued to inform relations well after the circumstances creating them had changed. Strategy and Command clearly establishes the fundamental strategic differences between the allies at the start of the war, setting the stage for the next two volumes.

Author : Chris Kempshall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331989465X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British, French and American Relations on the Western Front, 1914–1918 written by Chris Kempshall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough examination of the relations between the men in the British, French and American armies on the Western Front of the First World War. The Allied victory in 1918 was built on the backs of British, French, and American soldiers who joined together to fight for a common cause. Using the diaries, records, and letters of these men, Chris Kempshall shows how these soldiers interacted with each other during four years of war. The British army that arrived in France in 1914 became isolated from their French allies and unable to coordinate with them. By 1916, Britain’s professional soldiers were replaced by civilians who learned to love their French ally, who reached out to them in friendship. At the end of the war the introduction of American soldiers caused hope and conflict before perceived British failures brought the alliance to the brink of collapse. Final cooperation between these three nations saw them victorious.

Author : Ian Sumner
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1781599084
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Shall Not Pass written by Ian Sumner and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-05-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sumner’s brilliant window onto the French army is a book I cannot recommend highly enough . . . Full of detail and mixed with vivid personal accounts.”—War History Online This graphic collection of first-hand accounts sheds new light on the experiences of the French army during the Great War. It reveals in authentic detail the perceptions and emotions of soldiers and civilians who were caught up in the most destructive conflict the world had ever seen. Their testimony gives a striking insight into the mentality of the troops and their experience of combat, their emotional ties to their relatives at home, their opinions about their commanders and their fellow soldiers, the appalling conditions and dangers they endured, and their attitude to their German enemy. In their own words, in diaries, letters, reports and memoirs—most of which have never been published in English before—they offer a fascinating inside view of the massive life-and-death struggle that took place on the Western Front. The author’s pioneering work will appeal to readers who may know something about the British and German armies on the Western Front, but little about the French army which bore the brunt of the fighting on the allied side. His book represents a milestone in publishing on the Great War. “An interesting, well-written and informative book which goes a long way to explaining why the French army mounted the staunch defense of its homeland that it did.”—Burton Mail “The text is skillfully put together and moves seamlessly from one voice to another while illuminating the flow of events that affected Frenchmen and women during the Great War.”—Stand To! The Western Front Association

Author : Roy Arnold Prete
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War of Movement on the Western Front, August - November, 1914 written by Roy Arnold Prete and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of this thesis is the operation of the Anglo-French coalition during the phase of movement on the western front from August to November, 1914. Although Anglo-French relations during the Battle of the Marne have been treated in several studies, no study exists of the entire period of manoeuvre of mass armies in the open field prior to the advent of trench warfare in mid-November. That whole period nonetheless offers a special interest because of the interaction of policy, strategy and tactics on a front of more -vital interest to the French than the British. A central theme of the study is that Joffre, the French Commanden- in-Chief, sought to obtain a maximum contribution from the British on the battlefield in 1914 as a means of defending the vital interests of France. Although the British entered the war with a limited commitment to continental defence. Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War, acceded to Joffre*s ever-increasing demands in the belief that British interest, even survival, depended on Anglo-French victory over Germany on the continent. Thus, while preparing mass armies for ulti mate British triumph, he intervened when necessary to force coopera tion; in particular by. his trip to Paris on September 1, when the Al liance threatened to dissolve; and as crisis followed crisis, he extended Britain*s continental commitment. Thus, on November 1, in response to the crisis during the Battle of Tpres, he promised the French a million men on the western front for the summer of 1915. As former enemies, the French and British were to prove uneasy Allies in 191U- Conflict in particular arose in early October when Kitchener*s plan for an expedition for the relief of Antwerp clashed with Joffre*s strategy of a flanking manoeuvre in northern France against the German Army. Even after the victory of the Marne, much mistrust and suspicion prevailed between the two commands, serving as the chief impediment between them to effective cooperation. A pro longed command crisis thus developed in late October when the Commander- in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, Sir John French, rede ployed his Force in Flanders from the Aisne, despite French misgivings, and then failed to march on Lille. Indeed, Sir John, whose command was independent of the French, was not always agreeable to the French form ula of maximum British participation under French direction. The de gree of success on the battlefield, which depended on French strategic planning, nevertheless* affected the functioning of the coalition most of all, for cooperation could be built only on confidence. In the final analysis, the French and British were only partially compatible as Allies, and their cooperation during the ,f War of Movement" must be qualified as a limited success. At the end of the period, the pattern of Allied cooperation had been established for the long period of stalemate which followed on the western front. The thesis is based mainly on research in archival sources and the private papers and diaries of the main participants in France and Great Britain.

Author : Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Western Front 1914-1916: Relations with France written by Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Western Front 1914-1916 detailing relations with France. Includes correspondence from the French War Office, British Embassy in Paris and between Lord Kitchener and Alexandre Millerand from the French War Ministry.

Author : John Terraine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Western Front, 1914-1918 written by John Terraine and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the conditions and casualties of trench warfare, and questions the strategy of Field-Marshall's Haig and Plumer and the leadership of Lloyd George.

Author : Holger Afflerbach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110435993
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purpose of the First World War written by Holger Afflerbach and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? How did they justify the losses, and why did they not try to end the war earlier? In this volume twelve international specialists analyses and compares the hopes and expectations of the political and military leaders of the main belligerent countries and of their respective societies. It shows that the war aims adopted during the First World War were not, for the most part, the cause of the conflict, but a reaction to it, an attempt to give the tragedy a purpose - even if the consequence was to oblige the belligerents to go on fighting until victory. The volume tries to explain why - and for what - the contemporaries thought that they had to fight the Great War.