British, French and American Relations on the Western Front, 1914-1918 / by Chris Kempshall.

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British, French and American Relations on the Western Front, 1914-1918 / by Chris Kempshall.

9783319894652
331989465X
3319894641
9783319894645

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

English

1 online resource (XIX, 306 pages 13 illustrations in color.) : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-319-89465-2 doi

D25-D25.9

355

This book provides a thorough examination of the relations between the men in the British, French and American armies on the Western Front of the First World War. The Allied victory in 1918 was built on the backs of British, French, and American soldiers who joined together to fight for a common cause. Using the diaries, records, and letters of these men, Chris Kempshall shows how these soldiers interacted with each other during four years of war. The British army that arrived in France in 1914 became isolated from their French allies and unable to coordinate with them. By 1916, Britain's professional soldiers were replaced by civilians who learned to love their French ally, who reached out to them in friendship. At the end of the war the introduction of American soldiers caused hope and conflict before perceived British failures brought the alliance to the brink of collapse. Final cooperation between these three nations saw them victorious.

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