LEADER 03582nam 22007092 450 001 9910457730103321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-15492-8 010 $a1-280-28420-X 010 $a0-511-13441-X 010 $a0-511-13753-2 010 $a0-511-20173-7 010 $a0-511-31184-2 010 $a0-511-49703-2 010 $a0-511-13536-X 024 3 $z9780521853842 (hbk.) 035 $a(CKB)1000000000352415 035 $a(EBL)244065 035 $a(OCoLC)171137839 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000267361 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11239424 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000267361 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10333049 035 $a(PQKB)10116373 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511497032 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC244065 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL244065 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10289466 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL28420 035 $a(OCoLC)63042455 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000352415 100 $a20090306d2005|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVictory through coalition $eBritain and France during the First World War /$fElizabeth Greenhalgh$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 304 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge military histories 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-09629-4 311 $a0-521-85384-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 286-296) and index. 327 $a1. Coalition warfare and the Franco-British alliance -- 2. Command, 1914-1915 -- 3. The battle of the Somme, 1916 -- 4. Liaison, 1914-1916 -- 5. The Allied response to the German submarine -- 6. Command, 1917 -- 7. The creation of the Supreme War Council -- 8. The German offensives of 1918 and the crisis in command -- 9. The Allies counter-attack -- 10. Politics and bureaucracy of supply -- 11. Coalition as a defective mechanism? 330 $aGermany's invasion of France in August 1914 represented a threat to the great power status of both Britain and France. The countries had no history of co-operation, yet the entente they had created in 1904 proceeded by trial and error, via recriminations, to win a war of unprecedented scale and ferocity. Elizabeth Greenhalgh examines the huge problem of finding a suitable command relationship in the field and in the two capitals. She details the civil-military relations on each side, the political and military relations between the two powers, the maritime and industrial collaboration that were indispensable to an industrialised war effort and the Allied prosecution of war on the western front. Although it was not until 1918 that many of the war-winning expedients were adopted, Dr Greenhalgh shows that victory was ultimately achieved because of, rather than in spite of, coalition. 410 0$aCambridge military histories. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zGreat Britain 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zFrance 607 $aFrance$xMilitary relations$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xMilitary relations$zFrance 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918 676 $a940.332 700 $aGreenhalgh$b Elizabeth$01040649 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457730103321 996 $aVictory through coalition$92463673 997 $aUNINA