Britain and France in Two World Wars

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The contributions offer a vivid illustration of how the same event can yield sharply divergent memories in two neighbouring countries. -- Robert Boyce * www.histoire-politique.fr * These essays are an excellent advertisement for comparative history: this approach sheds further light on the relationship between war and memory in both countries ... This collection demonstrates that approaches in military and diplomatic history can effectively incorporate elements of cultural history, and vice versa. -- Vincent Trott * Reviews in History * These essays penned by experts in the field comprise a compelling whole, reminding us that the interaction between truth, myth and memory is complex and fascinating - and even more so when the Franco-British relationship is involved. -- James E. Connolly * French History * Robert Tombs is an expert on Franco-British relations both academically and personally ... he and research fellow Emile Chabal brought a Premier League Franco-British team to St John's College Cambridge to discuss the 'Truth, Myth and Memory' of the complex relationship between Britain and France in two world wars ... Britain and France is a good example how a group of historians can write good comparative history. -- Robert Gildea * Modern & Contemporary France * The contributors offer new insights on Franco-British relations, past and present, on the way both countries viewed each other in 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, and how they have remembered those periods ... [They] go beyond the theme of a "love-hate" relationship, thus adding to Franco-British scholarship a comparative - at times transnational - history of France and Britain's memory. -- Charlotte Faucher, Queen Mary University of London, UK * Contemporary French Civilization * This volume is an immensely engaging and wide-ranging work of scholarship, with valuable and original insights into the Anglo-French experience and memory of both world wars. -- Heather Jones * The London School of Economics and Political Science *