Cross Channel Currents: 100 Years of the Entente Cordiale - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415346614 ISBN 13: 9780415346610

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

Cross Channel Currents explores the understandings and misunderstandings that make up the Entente Cordiale - the hundred-year relationship between Britain and France, as well as the everyday common interests and shared pleasures that give it substance.

Contributors include the late Roy Jenkins, in a witty and personal view of Winston Churchill's relationship with France; Pierre Messmer, a companion of Charles de Gaulle during World War II and later his prime minister; former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, who remembers the historic meeting of Edward Heath and Georges Pompidou; Hubert Vedrine, a former French foreign minister, on the difficulties of cross-Channel relations; and their successors Dominique de Villepin and Jack Straw.

About this title

About the Author

Douglas Johnson is professor emeritus of French history, University of London.
Richard Mayne is a writer and broadcaster. He was personal assistant to Jean Monnet, a senior official of the European Commission, and for six years its UK representative.
Robert Tombs is a reader in French history at the University of Cambridge, and the author of France 1814-1914 (1996).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415346614
• ISBN 13: 9780415346610
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Johnson Douglas, Mayne Richard, Tombs Robert