'An entertaining, judicious overview xxx; it is bound to appeal to that illusive creature the Common Reader'

• 1. Landmarks.  2. Britain and France at the opening of the century.  3. Entente cordiale.  4. Problems of the entente, 1905-1914.  5. Comrades in arms, 1914-1918.  6. Light and shade: views and memories of war.  7. Peacemaking 1919.  8. Troubled twenties.  9. Things fall apart.  10. Appeasement and the English governess.  11. The Fall of France.  12. Lost opportunity?  13. The Schuman plan.  14.Britain, France and 'Europe', 1951- 1961.  15. Britain, France and the EEC, 1961-1975: a less than happy ending.  Epilogue.

'An entertaining, judicious overview xxx; it is bound to appeal to that illusive creature the Common Reader'

• 1. Landmarks.  2. Britain and France at the opening of the century.  3. Entente cordiale.  4. Problems of the entente, 1905-1914.  5. Comrades in arms, 1914-1918.  6. Light and shade: views and memories of war.  7. Peacemaking 1919.  8. Troubled twenties.  9. Things fall apart.  10. Appeasement and the English governess.  11. The Fall of France.  12. Lost opportunity?  13. The Schuman plan.  14.Britain, France and 'Europe', 1951- 1961.  15. Britain, France and the EEC, 1961-1975: a less than happy ending.  Epilogue.