Britain And France In Two World Wars

Author : Emile Chabal
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 144113039X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain and France in Two World Wars written by Emile Chabal and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines relations between France and Britain, in particular their conflicting memories of key episodes in their recent past.

Author : Arnold Wolfers
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain and France Between Two Wars written by Arnold Wolfers and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1966 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliant... highly original in its approach and meticulously cautious, concise and convincing in its judgments." --Sidney B. Fay, The Yale Review

Author : Colin Smith
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297857819
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's Last War Against France written by Colin Smith and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genuinely new story of the Second World War - the full account of England's last war against France in 1940-42. Most people think that England's last war with France involved point-blank broadsides from sailing ships and breastplated Napoleonic cavalry charging red-coated British infantry. But there was a much more recent conflict than this. Under the terms of its armistice with Nazi Germany, the unoccupied part of France and its substantial colonies were ruled from the spa town of Vichy by the government of Marshal Philip Petain. Between July 1940 and November 1942, while Britain was at war with Germany, Italy and ultimately Japan, it also fought land, sea and air battles with the considerable forces at the disposal of Petain's Vichy French. When the Royal Navy sank the French Fleet at Mers El-Kebir almost 1,300 French sailors died in what was the twentieth century's most one-sided sea battle. British casualties were nil. It is a wound that has still not healed, for undoubtedly these events are better remembered in France than in Britain. An embarrassment at the time, France's maritime massacre and the bitter, hard-fought campaigns that followed rarely make more than footnotes in accounts of Allied operations against Axis forces. Until now.

Author : Arnold Wolfers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain and France Between Two Wars written by Arnold Wolfers and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Jabara Carley
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 146169938X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1939 written by Michael Jabara Carley and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a crucial point in the twentieth century, as Nazi Germany prepared for war, negotiations between Britain, France, and the Soviet Union became the last chance to halt Hitler’s aggression. Incredibly, the French and British governments dallied, talks failed, and in August 1939 the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with Germany. Michael Carley’s gripping account of these negotiations is not a pretty story. It is about the failures of appeasement and collective security in Europe. It is about moral depravity and blindness, about villains and cowards, and about heroes who stood against the intellectual and popular tides of their time. Some died for their beliefs, others labored in obscurity and have been nearly forgotten. In 1939 they sought to make the Grand Alliance that never was between France, Britain, and the Soviet Union. This story of their efforts is background to the wartime alliance created in 1941 without France but with the United States in order to defeat a demonic enemy. 1939 is based upon Mr. Carley’s longtime research on the period, including work in French, British, and newly opened Soviet archives. He challenges prevailing interpretations of the origins of World War II by situating 1939 at the end of the early cold war between the Soviet Union, France, and Britain, and by showing how anti-communism was the major cause of the failure to form an alliance against Hitler. 1939 was published on September 1, the sixtieth anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the start of the war.

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465093191
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second World Wars written by Victor Davis Hanson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian. World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma to armor strikes in Libya. The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war. Drawing on 3,000 years of military history, bestselling author Victor Davis Hanson argues that despite its novel industrial barbarity, neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual. Nor was its ultimate outcome surprising. The Axis powers were well prepared to win limited border conflicts, but once they blundered into global war, they had no hope of victory. An authoritative new history of astonishing breadth, The Second World Wars offers a stunning reinterpretation of history's deadliest conflict.

Author : Daniel A. Baugh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317895460
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Seven Years War 1754-1763 written by Daniel A. Baugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Years War was a global contest between the two superpowers of eighteenth century Europe, France and Britain. Winston Churchill called it “the first World War”. Neither side could afford to lose advantage in any part of the world, and the decisive battles of the war ranged from Fort Duquesne in what is now Pittsburgh to Minorca in the Mediterranean, from Bengal to Quèbec. By its end British power in North America and India had been consolidated and the foundations of Empire laid, yet at the time both sides saw it primarily as a struggle for security, power and influence within Europe. In this eagerly awaited study, Daniel Baugh, the world’s leading authority on eighteenth century maritime history looks at the war as it unfolded from the failure of Anglo-French negotiations over the Ohio territories in 1784 through the official declaration of war in 1756 to the treaty of Paris which formally ended hostilities between England and France in 1763. At each stage he examines the processes of decision-making on each side for what they can show us about the capabilities and efficiency of the two national governments and looks at what was involved not just in the military engagements themselves but in the complexities of sustaining campaigns so far from home. With its panoramic scope and use of telling detail this definitive account will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in military history or the history of eighteenth century Europe.

Author : Nick Kollerstrom
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530993185
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Britain Initiated Both World Wars written by Nick Kollerstrom and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enlarged, second edition explores the concept of wanting to initiate a world war: and why Britain did this. By examining the two world wars together, an improved perspective is obtained. It's an anti-war polemic, concerning Britain's responsibilty for initiating the two great world wars of the 20th century, against a country that had always desired peace and friendship with Britain. Its an easy-to-read booklet that will challenge what you have believed all your life of the subject.

Author : Arnold Wolfers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain and France Between Two Wars written by Arnold Wolfers and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A.J.P. Taylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684829479
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origin Of The Second World War written by A.J.P. Taylor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Back Cover: From the moment of its publication in 1961, A.J.P. Taylor's seminal work caused a storm of praise and controversy, and it has since been recognized as a classic: the first book ever to examine exclusively and in depth the causes of the Second World War and to apportion the responsibility among Allies and Germans alike. With crisp, clear prose and brilliant analysis, Taylor established that the war, "far from being premeditated, was a mistake, the result on both sides of diplomatic blunders." He argued that Hitler was more an opportunist than an ideologue who owed his successes to Great Britain's and France's tacking between resistance and appeasement, and to an American policy akin to "the significant episode of the dog in the night, to which Sherlock Holmes once drew attention. When Watson objected: 'But the dog did nothing in the night," Holmes answered: 'That was the significant episode.' "The Times Literary Supplement called The Origins of the Second World War "simple, devastating, superlatively readable, and deeply disturbing," and it remains so now-a groundbreaking book of enduring importance.