This book provides a thorough examination of the relations between the men in the British, French and American armies on the Western Front of the First World War. The Allied victory in 1918 was built on the backs of British, French, and American soldiers who joined together to fight for a common cause.
Chris Kempshall is an historian focusing on the First World War and popular representations of warfare. He has taught on war and European history at the Universities of Sussex, Kent, and Goldsmiths College, London. He is the author of The First World War in Computer Games (Palgrave, 2015) and is a member of the Academic Advisory Board for the Imperial War Museum's digital centenary projects.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction: ‘Liberty and Union…’.- Part One: Confusion.- Building the Entente Cordiale.- Initial Interactions: The B.E.F. in France 1914-1915.- Part Two: Co-Operation.- ‘My heart softened to the French ... all at once I loved them’: The Entente Cordiale at the Somme.- ‘That liberty shall not perish from the Earth’: America and the Entente Cordiale.- Part Three: Collapse.- Careless Disasters: Allied Relations in 1918.- Allied Relations and l’apres guerre.- Conclusion: ‘… Now and Forever.’.- Bibliography.- Index.