British, French and American Relations on the Western Front, 1914-1918

• Main Author: Kempshall, Chris (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Military history.; France-History.; Great Britain-History.; United States-History.; World history.; History of Military.; History of France.; History of Britain and Ireland.; US History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.

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 cau...

Table of Contents:

• 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.