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Conflict and Compromise: The Strategy, Politics and Diplomacy of the French Blockade, 1914-1918

Door M.M. Farrar

Categorie
Europa
Boeknummer
#374948-XB47
Titel
Conflict and Compromise: The Strategy, Politics and Diplomacy of the French Blockade, 1914-1918
Auteur
Farrar, M.M.
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Berlin/Heidelberg : Springer
Jaar van uitgave
1974
ISBN10
9024715547
ISBN13
9789024715541
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
The historical literature on the first world war has devoted relatively little attention to the Allied blockade of the Central Powers. The few published studies have concentrated either on the blockade's naval aspects or exclusively on the British contribution. Little effort has been made heretofore to distinguish the French role. This study focuses on the French contribution to the diplomatic, as contrasted with the maritime, blockade of the Central Powers. It discusses primarily French relations with the so-called European border neutral states : principally Switzerland, but also the Netherlands and the three Scandinavian countries. Only in the diplomatic aspects of the Allied blockade program did the French play a distinctive role. Their token contribution to maritime blockade activity ... (Lees verder)remained subordinate to the British. An examination of Franco-neutral rela tions involves not only a study of those diplomatic contacts per se but also a comparison of French and British tactics as a reflection of differing economic warfare concepts. This study also investigates the development of a French blockade organization to meet the demands of this new weapon, the diplomatic blockade.
Pagina's
216
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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