Britain and France between Two Wars: Conflicting Strategies of Peace from Versailles to World War II

by Arnold Wolfers

Book Overview

For those who gathered at Versailles in 1919 to draw up the terms of peace, the great issue was the political problem of Germany's power and position in postwar Europe. But even with an Allied victory so newly won, the two great European powers, Britain and France, failed to reconcile their self-interests. Thus a pattern was set that persisted almost to the outbreak of World War II. For nearly twenty years the outlook of France and Britain on European...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393003434
• ISBN13: 9780393003437
• Release Date: February 1966
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"