Introduction

  • Michael Dockrill
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Part of the Studies in Military and Strategic History book series (SMSH)

Abstract

Anglo-French relations have, over the centuries, been characterised by mutual suspicion and antagonism, punctuated by brief periods of détente.2 As Nicholas Rostow has put it,

Language, history, even differences in government structure, emphasised that the British and French were distinct peoples of definite character. They looked at the world differently. To different habits of mind and government, the past added strands of rivalry and cooperation which were revealed in contradictory feelings and attitudes in both countries.3

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  • Michael Dockrill
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  1. 1.King’s CollegeLondonUK

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