The Burden of Victory

In The Burden of Victory, author Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt discusses French-British relations in the period following the First World War. He looks at how the fear of German power fostered an Anglo-French cooperation that lasted until the end of World War I. With this background, discussions focus on the post-war domestic pressures and tensions that affected the Anglo-French association and contributed to its decline. The Burden of Victory is an incomparable one-volume treatment of such a topic, a topic that has particular relevance in the light of recent Anglo-French concern about Germany's role in Europe after its reunification. Contents: Illustrations; Preface; Prologue: The Formation of an Alliance; Versailles, 28 June 1991; Security is Everything; Reducing the Causes of Exasperation; The Grand Design; Somebody Has to Pay; To Get Some Coal; The End of Passive Resistance; Getting the French to Leave; The Berlin Initiative; The Moderator; The Meeting at Lake Magyar; A Marriage of Convenience; The Locarno Spirit; Epilogue: Tea Time; Appendices; Biobliography; Index.