ABSTRACT
Anglo-French Relations in the Twentieth Century is a collection of studies on the key episodes of the difficult and often discordant Anglo-French exchange over the past century. The authors critically re-evaluate: * the role of Spain in Anglo-French relations up to 1918
* the missed opportunity of the 1920s with the failure of France and Britain to find sufficient common ground and co-operation
* the short-lived Anglo-French alliance and the Second World War
* the degree of Anglo-French Imperial co-operation
* the Suez Crisis
* British and French policies on European Integration.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|25 pages
The elusive balance
British foreign policy and the French entente before the First World War
chapter 6|16 pages
Lloyd George, Clemenceau and the elusive Anglo-French guarantee treaty, 1919
‘A disastrous episode’?
chapter 7|19 pages
Anglo-French relations from Versailles to Locarno, 1919–1925
The quest for security
chapter 11|18 pages
France's economic and financial crisis
The view from the Foreign Office, the Treasury and the Bank of England, 1936–1939
chapter 13|20 pages
The most important of the Western nations
France's place in Britain's post-war foreign policy, 1945–1949
