Victory through coalition : Britain and France during the First World War /

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"Germany's invasion of France in August 1914 represented a threat to the Great Power status of both Britain and France. The two countries had no history of cooperation, yet the entente they had created in 1904 proceeded by trial and error, via recriminations, to win a war of unprecedented...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Greenhalgh, Elizabeth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Ã2005
Series:Cambridge military histories.
Subjects:
1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 > France.
World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > France.
HISTORY > Military > World War I.
Military relations
France > Military relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Military relations > France.
France > Relations militaires > Grande-Bretagne.
France
Great Britain
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Coalition warfare and the Franco-British alliance
  • Command, 1914-1915
  • The Battle of the Somme, 1916
  • Liaison, 1914-1916
  • The Allied response to the German submarine
  • Command, 1917
  • The creation of the Supreme War Council
  • The German offensives of 1918 and the crisis in command
  • The Allies counter-attack
  • Politics and bureaucracy of supply
  • Coalition as a defective mechanism?

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