This assortment gathers a number of the best-known names within the box of Anglo-French family members and gives an authoritative survey of the sector. beginning with the an important interval of the 1st global struggle and finishing with the both complicated query of the second one Iraq struggle, the research has an emphasis on British perceptions of the Entente.
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