TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greenhalgh,Elizabeth
TI  - Victory through coalition: Britain and France during the First World War 
T2  - Cambridge military histories
SN  - 9780511497032
AV  - D544 .G75 2005
U1  - 940.332 22
PY  - 2005///
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - France
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Military
KW  - World War I
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Military relations
KW  - fast
KW  - Relations militaires
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-296) and index; Coalition warfare and the Franco-British alliance -- Command, 1914-1915 -- The Battle of the Somme, 1916 -- Liaison, 1914-1916 -- The Allied response to the German submarine -- Command, 1917 -- The creation of the Supreme War Council -- The German offensives of 1918 and the crisis in command -- The Allies counter-attack -- Politics and bureaucracy of supply -- Coalition as a defective mechanism?
N2  - "Germany's invasion of France in August 1914 represented a threat to the Great Power status of both Britain and France. The two countries had no history of cooperation, yet the entente they had created in 1904 proceeded by trial and error, via recriminations, to win a war of unprecedented scale and ferocity. Elizabeth Greenhalgh here examines the huge problem of finding a suitable command relationship in the field and in the two capitals. She details the civil-military relations on each side, the political and military relations between the two powers, the maritime and industrial collaborations that were indispensable to an industrialised war effort and the Allied prosecution of war on the Western Front. Although it was not until 1918 that many of the war-winning expedients were adopted, Dr Greenhalgh shows that victory was ultimately achieved because of, rather than in spite of, coalition."--Publisher's description
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