This book investigates the course of Anglo-French policy in Europe from 1936 to1938, a critical period during which France was governed by a series of Popular Front coalition Ministries. It asserts that French policy-makers made a substantial impact upon the course of British foreign policy whilst breathing new life into the waning Entente Cordiale. The study contends that close attention to the role of French influence is fundamental to a grasp of British appeasement and rearmament policy in the period and essential to the understanding of the Anglo-French response to such problems as the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of League of Nations authority and the treatment of the Soviet Union. Essential reading for students of British or French Political History or the origins of World War II in Europe
This book investigates the course of Anglo-French policy in Europe from 1936 to1938, a critical period during which France was governed by a series of Popular Front coalition Ministries. It asserts that French policy-makers made a substantial impact upon the course of British foreign policy whilst breathing new life into the waning Entente Cordiale. The study contends that close attention to the role of French influence is fundamental to a grasp of British appeasement and rearmament policy in the period and essential to the understanding of the Anglo-French response to such problems as the Spanish Civil War, the collapse of League of Nations authority and the treatment of the Soviet Union. Essential reading for students of British or French Political History or the origins of World War II in Europe
Über den Autor
Martin Thomas was born near Cardiff, and is proud of his Welsh heritage. He was educated at a Quaker School, and obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He then went to work in the UK Ministry of Defence undertaking evaluations of military vehicles, before transferring to the UK Home Office (the equivalent of a US Department of State), where he led a team evaluating firefighting equipment and tactics. He has always been a keen reader of Science Fiction and, on his retirement, he decided to bring his years of experience to the evaluation of the Ancient Astronaut Theory, as described in programs on the Blaze television channel. This is a field where there is conflict between eyewitnesses ofunnatural phenomena, and thise determined to refute this evidence at any price. He is a firm believer in the Engineering Method: If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck.
Zusammenfassung
Also available in hardback, 9781859731871 £50.00 (January, 1997)
