This book presents a compelling and original survey of British grand strategy in the inter-war period. Whereas most existing accounts privilege either diplomacy and foreign affairs, intelligence, or military affairs more narrowly, this book underlines the inexorable relationship…
A compelling and original survey of British grand strategy in the inter-war period, underlining the inexorable relationships between foreign policy, grand strategy, military force, intelligence, finance and not least, domestic politics and public opinion.
David French explores Britain's post-war defence policy, placing the army centre-stage. He sheds new light on this critical period by drawing from a range of primary sources and explains why we should remember the forgotten post-war British army.
David French explores Britain's post-war defence policy, placing the army centre-stage. He sheds new light on this critical period by drawing from a range of primary sources and explains why we should remember the forgotten post-war British army.
David French explores Britain's post-war defence policy, placing the army centre-stage. He sheds new light on this critical period by drawing from a range of primary sources and explains why we should remember the forgotten post-war British army.
There is ... a need for a new narrative of the history of the [British] army in the two and a half decades after the Second World War ... This book will try to produce it by placing the history of the post-war army within the wider context of the British strategic culture, by fo…
The veterans of the Fourteenth Army who fought in Burma between 1942 and 1945 called themselves 'the forgotten army'. But that appellation could equally well be applied to the whole of the British army after 1945. Histories of Britain's post-war defence policy have usually focus…
In this seminal reassessment of the historical foundation of British counter doctrine and practice, David French challenges our understanding that in the two decades after 1945 the British discovered a kinder and gentler way of waging war amongst the people.
In this seminal reassessment of the historical foundation of British counter doctrine and practice, David French challenges our understanding that in the two decades after 1945 the British discovered a kinder and gentler way of waging war amongst the people.
