Britain and France in two world wars : truth, myth and memory /: truth, myth and memory. (2013 copyright 2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robert Tombs and Emile Chabal.
• Editors: Tombs, Robert; Chabal, Emile
• Contents: 'Two great peoples' / Robert Tombs -- Part One. The First World War. Introduction / Gary Sheffield -- Crossed wires, 1904-14 / John Keiger -- Unequal sacrifice? Two armies, two wars? / William Philpott -- 1918: the push to victory / Elizabeth Greenhalgh -- Part Two. The Second World War. Introduction / Akhila Yechury and Emile Chabal -- Dunkirk in military operations, myths and memories / Martin S. Alexander -- The British, the Free French and the Resistance / Sébastien Albertelli -- The British and the liberation of France / Olivier Wieviorka -- Part Three. Remembering and Forgetting. Introduction / P.M.H. Bell -- Cultural divergences in patterns of remembering the Great War in Britain and France / Jay Winter -- The Second World War through French and British eyes / Robert Frank -- France, Britain and the narrative of two world wars / David Reynolds.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: 940.341; Military history; World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain; World War, 1914-1918 -- France; World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain; World War, 1939-1945 -- France; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; History -- Europe -- General; History -- Military -- General; History -- Modern -- 20th Century; European history; Great Britain -- Relations -- France; France -- Relations -- Great Britain
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441166197
• Related ISBNs: 144116619X
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