This book analyses British official reactions to the apparent decline of France, politically, socially and economically, in the three years before the outbreak of war in Europe. The book is based on public and private archival sources and on the memoirs and biographies of leading British figures and describes the British Government's efforts to cope with the desperate strategic situation created by its own military weakness and the malaise of the Third Republic, its own potential great power ally in a war with the Axis powers.

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King’s College, London, UK

Michael Dockrill

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Michael Dockrill is Reader in War Studies at King's College, London.

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Book Title: British Establishment Perspectives on France, 1936–40
Authors: Michael Dockrill
Series Title: Studies in Military and Strategic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27308-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-27310-2Published: 01 January 1999
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-27308-9Published: 12 April 1999
Series ISSN: 2947-2423
Series E-ISSN: 2947-2431
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 212
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, European History, International Relations, Military and Defence Studies, Modern History

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Britain, France and the Rhineland Crisis, March to December 1936

Anglo-French Relations in 1937

Britain and France in the Year of Munich, 1938

Britain and France from Munich to the German Occupation of Bohemia

Britain’s Perceptions of France from March 1939 to the Fall of France

Conclusion

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