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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2009
Print publication year:
2005
Online ISBN:
9780511497032

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Germany's invasion of France in August 1914 represented a threat to the great power status of both Britain and France. The countries had no history of co-operation, yet the entente they had created in 1904 proceeded by trial and error, via recriminations, to win a war of unprecedented scale and ferocity. Elizabeth Greenhalgh examines the huge problem of finding a suitable command relationship in the field and in the two capitals. She details the civil-military relations on each side, the political and military relations between the two powers, the maritime and industrial collaboration that were indispensable to an industrialised war effort and the Allied prosecution of war on the western front. Although it was not until 1918 that many of the war-winning expedients were adopted, Dr Greenhalgh shows that victory was ultimately achieved because of, rather than in spite of, coalition.

Reviews

"This work is destined to become a major contribution to the historiography of the Great War and a significant new source for military historians. Essential." -- Choice

"Elizabeth Greenhalgh's perceptive and well-researched book is the third title in the Cambridge Military History series.... Victory through Coalition presents a straight forward thesis summed up in its title....Greenhalgh has provided not just a fine exploration of the subject at hand but a useful model for thinking about how to write the history of coalition warfare elsewhere."
--Leonard V. Smith, Oberlin College, Journal of Modern History

"This work does...add to our understanding of the nature of the Allies' coalition war, showing that it was, indeed, won because of cooperation, despite the various minor and major issues that were thrown up in the course of the war." - Ross Mahoney, H-War

"...well-researched account of Franco-British coalition warfare that would be of interest to historians and general readers alike." -Werner D. Lippert, The Historian

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Contents

Bibliographical essay
Bibliographical essay
GENERAL WORKS
Becker, Jean-Jacques, The Great War and the French People (New York: St Martin's Press, 1986)
Bourne, J. M., Britain and the Great War 1914–1918 (London: Arnold, 1989)
Chickering, Roger, and Förster, Stig, Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914–1918 (Washington, DC: German Historical Institute / Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Clayton, Anthony, Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914–18 (London: Cassell, 2003)
Doughty, Robert A., Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005)
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Duroselle, Jean-Baptiste, ‘Entente and Mésentente’, in Johnson, Douglas, Crouzet, François and Bédarida, François (eds.), Britain and France: Ten Centuries (Folkestone: Dawson, 1980), 274–80
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Herwig, Holger H., The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–1918 (London: Arnold, 1997)
Maurice, Frederick, Lessons of Allied Co-operation: Naval, Military and Air, 1914–1918 (London: Oxford University Press, 1942)
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Neilson, Keith, Strategy and Supply: The Anglo-Russian Alliance, 1914–1917 (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1984)
Neilson, Keith, and Prete, Roy A. (eds.), Coalition Warfare: An Uneasy Accord (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1983)
Philpott, William J., Anglo-French Relations and Strategy on the Western Front, 1914–18 (London: Macmillan / New York: St Martin's Press, 1996)
Prior, Robin, and Wilson, Trevor, The First World War (London: Cassell, 1999)
Smith, Leonard V., Audoin-Rouzeau, Stéphane and Becker, Annette, France and the Great War 1914–1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
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Strachan, Hew, The First World War, vol. I. To Arms (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Wallach, Jehudah, Uneasy Coalition: The Entente Experience in World War I (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993)
Wilson, Trevor, The Myriad Faces of War: Britain and the Great War, 1914–1918 (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1986)
Memoirs, diaries and biographies
Autin, Jean, Foch ou le triomphe de la volonté (Paris: Perrin, 2nd edn 1998)
Blake, Robert (ed.), The Private Papers of Douglas Haig 1914–1919 (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1952)
Bond, Brian, and Cave, Nigel (eds.), Haig: A Re-appraisal 70 Years On (Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 1999)
Brock, Michael, and Brock, Eleanor (eds.), H. H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982)
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Cassar, George H., Asquith as War Leader (London: Hambledon, 1994)
Clemenceau, Georges, Grandeurs et misères d'une victoire (Paris: Plon, 1930) (trans. as Grandeur and Misery of Victory (London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1930))
Duroselle, Jean-Baptiste, Clemenceau (Paris: Fayard, 1988)
Dutton, David (ed.), Paris 1918: The War Diary of the British Ambassador, the 17th Earl of Derby (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2001)
Foch, Maréchal, Mémoires pour servir à l' histoire de la guerrre de 1914–1918, 2 vols. (Paris: Plon, 1931)
Greenhalgh, Elizabeth, ‘Myth and Memory: Sir Douglas Haig and the Imposition of Allied Unified Command in March 1918’, Journal of Military History 63: 3, 771–820
Grigg, John, Lloyd George: War Leader 1916–1918 (London: Allen Lane, 2002)
Hankey, Lord, The Supreme Command 1914–1918, 2 vols. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1961)
Hanks, Robert K., ‘Culture Versus Diplomacy: Clemenceau and Anglo-American Relations during the First World War’ (Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 2002)
Keiger, J. F. V., Raymond Poincaré (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Lennox, Lady Algernon Gordon (ed.), The Diary of Lord Bertie of Thame 1914–1918, 2 vols. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924)
Lloyd George, David, War Memoirs, 6 vols. (London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1933–6)
Mémoires du Maréchal Joffre, 2 vols. (Paris: Plon, 1932)
Mordacq, Général, Le Ministère Clemenceau: journal d'un témoin, 4 vols. (Paris: Plon, 1930–1)
Neiberg, Michael S., Foch: Supreme Allied Commander in the Great War (Washington, DC: Brassey's Inc., 2003)
Poincaré, Raymond, Au service de la France: neuf années de souvenirs, 11 vols. (Paris: Plon, 1926–74)
Prete, Roy A., ‘Joffre and the Question of Allied Supreme Command, 1914–1916’, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History 16 (1989), 329–38
Roskill, Stephen, Hankey: Man of Secrets, vol. I. 1877–1918 (London: Collins, 1970)
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Suttie, Andrew, Rewriting the Great War: Lloyd George's War Memoirs as History (forthcoming)
Watson, David Robin, Georges Clemenceau: A Political Biography (London: Eyre Methuen, 1974)
Weygand, Maxime, Mémoires, vol. I. Idéal vécu (Paris: Flammarion, 1950)
COMMAND: MILITARY AND POLITICAL
Cassar, George, Kitchener's War: British Strategy from 1914 to 1916 (Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2004)
Edmonds, Brigadier-General J. E. Sir, et al., Military Operations: France and Belgium, volumes for 1914–18, with annexes (London: Macmillan/HMSO, 1927–47)
France. Ministère de la Guerre. Etat-Major de l'Armée. Service Historique, Les Armées Françaises dans la Grande Guerre, 103 vols. (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1922–38)
French, David, British Strategy and War Aims 1914–1916 (London: Allen & Unwin, 1986)
French, David, The Strategy of the Lloyd George Coalition 1916–1918 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
King, J. C., Generals and Politicians: Conflict Between France's High Command, Parliament and Government, 1914–1918 (Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1951)
Millman, Brock, Pessimism and British War Policy 1916–1918 (London: Frank Cass, 2001)
Pedroncini, Guy, Pétain Général en Chef 1917–1918 (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1974)
Woodward, David R., Lloyd George and the Generals (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1983)
Greenhalgh, Elizabeth, ‘Why the British Were on the Somme in 1916’, War in History 6: 2 (1999), 147–73
Greenhalgh, Elizabeth, ‘Flames Over the Somme: A Retort to William Philpott’, War in History 10: 3 (2003), 335–42
Philpott, William, ‘Why the British Were Really on the Somme: A Reply to Elizabeth Greenhalgh’, War in History 9: 4 (2002), 446–71
Prior, Robin, and Wilson, Trevor, The Somme (London: Yale University Press, 2005)
Strachan, Hew, ‘The Battle of the Somme and British Strategy’, Journal of Strategic Studies 21: 1 (1998), 79–95
Civrieux, Commandant, Pages de vérité: l'offensive de 1917 et le commandement du Général Nivelle (Paris / Brussels: Van Oest, 1919)
Kuntz, K., ‘Le Problème de l'unité de commandement sur le front franco-britannique au début de 1917’, Revue d'Histoire de la Guerre Mondiale (January and April 1939), 19–50 and 129–68
Painlevé, Paul, Comment j'ai nommé Foch et Pétain: la politique de guerre de 1917, le commandement unique interallié (Paris: Alcan, 1924)
Spears, Major-General E. L. Sir, Prelude to Victory (London: Jonathan Cape, 1939)
Bliss, Tasker H., ‘The Evolution of the Unified Command’, Foreign Affairs 1: 2 (December 1922), 1–30
Hanks, Robert K., ‘How the First World War Was Almost Lost: Anglo-French Relations and the March Crisis of 1918’ (MA thesis, University of Calgary, 1992)
Harris, Paul, with Barr, Niall, Amiens to the Armistice: The BEF in the Hundred Days' Campaign, 8 August – 11 November 1918 (London: Brassey's, 1998)
Sheffield, Gary, Forgotten Victory: The First World War – Myths and Realities (London: Headline, 2001)
LIAISON
Brett, Maurice V., and Oliver, Viscount Esher (eds.), Journals and Letters of Reginald Viscount Esher, 4 vols. (London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1934–8)
Dillon, Brigadier the Viscount, Memories of Three Wars (London: Allan Wingate, 1951)
Herbillon, Colonel, Souvenirs d'un officier de liaison pendant la Guerre Mondiale: du général en chef au gouvernement, 2 vols. (Paris: Tallandier, 1930)
Huguet, General, L'Intervention militaire britannique en 1914 (Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1928) (trans. as Britain and the War: A French Indictment by Captain H. Cotton Minchin (London: Cassell, 1928))
Spears, Brigadier-General E. L., Liaison 1914: A Narrative of the Great Retreat (London: Heinemann, 1930)
Vallières, Jean des, Au soleil de la cavalerie avec le Général des Vallières (Paris: André Bonne, 1965)
SHIPPING AND LOGISTICS
Brown, Ian Malcolm, British Logistics on the Western Front 1914–1919 (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998)
Burk, Kathleen, Britain, America and the Sinews of War, 1914–1918 (Boston / London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1985)
Burk, Kathleen (ed.), War and the State: The Transformation of British Government, 1914–1919 (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982)
Cangardel, Henri, La Marine Marchande Française et la Guerre (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France / New Haven: Yale University Press, 1927)
Clémentel, Etienne, La France et la politique économique interalliée (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France / New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931)
Dawes, Charles G., A Journal of the Great War, 2 vols. (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1921)
Fayle, C. Ernest, Seaborne Trade, 3 vols. (London: John Murray, 1920–4)
Ferguson, Niall, The Pity of War (London: Allen Lane, 1998)
Godfrey, John F., Capitalism at War: Industrial Policy and Bureaucracy in France 1914–1918 (Leamington Spa / Hamburg / New York: Berg, 1987)
Harbord, James G., Leaves from a War Diary (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1926)
Hardach, Gerd, The First World War 1914–1918 (London: Allen Lane, 1977)
Henniker, Colonel A. M., Transportation on the Western Front 1914–1918 (London: HMSO, 1937)
Hinds, L. M., ‘La Coopération économique entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne pendant la première guerre mondiale’ (Thèse de doctorat, University of Paris, 1968)
Larigaldie, Pierre, Les Organismes interalliés de contrôle économique (Paris: Longin, 1926)
Military Board of Allied Supply, The Allied Armies under Marshal Foch in the Franco-Belgian Theater of Operations: Report of the Military Board of Allied Supply, 2 vols. (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1924–5)
Pershing, John J., My Experiences in the World War (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1931)
Salter, J. A., Allied Shipping Control: An Experiment in International Administration (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921)
Soutou, Georges-Henri, L'Or et le sang: les buts de guerre économiques de la Première Guerre Mondiale (Paris: Fayard, 1989)

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