Elizabeth Greenhalgh (Sydney University of New South Wales)

Victory Through Coalition

Britain and France During the First World War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Imperial Germany's invasion of France in August 1914 represented a threat to the great power status of both Britain and France. This book tells the story from both British and French perspectives of how the two countries managed to create a winning coalition relationship.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Military Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780521096294
• ISBN-10: 0521096294
• Artikelnr.: 25468189

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Greenhalgh is Executive Officer at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, and the Joint Editor of War and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Coalition warfare and the Franco-British alliance
2. Command 1914-15
3. The Battle of the Somme, 1916
4. The liaison services, 1914-16
5. The allied response to the German submarine
6. Command 1917
7. The creation of the supreme war council
8. The German offensives of 1918 and the crisis in command
9. The allies counterattack
10. Politics and bureaucracy of supply
11. Coalition: a defective mechanism?