Anglo-French Defence Relations Between the

This collection of essays reviews the politico-military relationship between Britain and France between the two World Wars. As well as examining the relationship between the two nations' armed services, the book's contributors also analyze key themes in Anglo-French inter-war defense politics - disarmament, intelligence and imperial defense - and joint military, political and economic preparations for a second world war.

Martin S. Alexander is in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

William J. Philpott is Lecturer in Military History at King’s College London.

Preface

vii

Philip Bell

Acknowledgements

ix

Notes on Contributors

x

List of Abbreviations

xii

Introduction: Choppy Channel Waters -- the Crests and Troughs of Anglo-French Defence Relations between the Wars

1

(25)

Martin S. Alexander

William J. Philpott

Growing Respect: the Royal Navy and the Marine Nationale, 1918--39

26

(23)

Anthony Clayton

An Argument without End: Britain, France and the Disarmament Process, 1925--34

49

(23)

Andrew Webster

Britain, France and the Emerging Italian Threat, 1935--38

72

(20)

Reynolds M. Salerno

France, Britain and the Making of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1938--39

92

(29)

Talbot Imlay

Intelligence in Anglo-French Relations before the Outbreak of the Second World War

121

(36)

Peter Jackson

Joe Maiolo

Imperial Defence or Diversionary Attack? Anglo-French Strategic Planning in the Near East, 1936--40

157

(29)

Martin Thomas

Preparing to Feed Mars: Anglo-French Economic Co-ordination and the Coming of War, 1937--40

186

(23)

Martin S. Alexander

The Benefit of Experience? The Supreme War Council and the Higher Management of Coalition War, 1939--40

209

(18)

William J. Philpott

Index

227

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Anglo-French Defence Relations Between the Wars

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