From Versailles to Mers el-Kébir : the promise of Anglo-French naval cooperation, 1919-40 /

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Author / Creator:Melton, George E., 1932- author.
Imprint:Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2015]
Description:xiii, 264 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10384548
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ISBN:9781612518794
1612518796
9781612518800
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"This book concerns itself with one of the most unlikely relationships in the two decades before World War II: the alliance of the Royal Navy and the French fleet. By the mid 1930s, both fleets had overextended themselves with global defense commitments, owing mainly to the collapse of the world war alliances and to an ominous shift in the balance of world naval power. To maximize their power, England and France combined their assets in a naval alliance. The union was not an altogether happy one, but it survived in one form or another until the British attack upon the French fleet at Mers el-Kébir in 1940. George E. Melton brings new insights to the diplomacy that led to this often strained cooperation, and reinterprets some of the most important events of early World War II"--
Other form:Online version: Melton, George E., 1932- author. From Versailles to Mers el-Kébir Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2015] 9781612518800

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505 0 |a Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Toward a global imbalance -- Fascist aggression in the Mediterranean -- Tensions in Spanish waters -- The road to Nyon -- Solving a Mediterranean problem -- An informal naval entente -- From Nyon to Munich -- An Anglo-French naval alliance -- War on the periphery -- Twilight of the Anglo-French naval alliance -- Toward a violent solution -- Blunder at Mers el-Kébir -- The cover-up and after -- Conclusions. 
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