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A compelling and original survey of British grand strategy in the inter-war period, underlining the inexorable relationships between foreign policy, grand strategy, military force, intelligence, finance and not least, domestic politics and public opinion.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- Part 1: Making Peace and Managing Peace: 1919-1930
- 2: Who made British Policy and Grand Strategy?
- 3: Creating the New World Order, 1919-1921
- 4: Reconstructing the New World Order, 1921-1926
- 5: Managing the New World Order, 1926-1930
- Part 2: The Crumbling of the New World Order, 1931-1936
- 6: The World Crisis and the National Government, 1931-1933
- 7: A new Grand Strategy: the Defence Requirements Committee, 1932-1935
- 8: 'I wish I saw a real policy emerging, but frankly I don't': The Baldwin Government, 1935-1937
- Part 3: The Ascendency of Chamberlain, 1937-1940
- 9: The Grand Strategy of Fortress Britain, May 1937-September 1938
- 10: 'And I sincerely believe that we have at last opened the way to that general appeasement which alone can save the world from chaos': Appeasement, Containment, and War: October 1938 to September 1939
- 11: '...there was no hurry as time was on our side': Chamberlain's War
- Conclusion
About the author
David French was born in Essex in 1954 and educated at the University of York and King's College London. After briefly holding teaching posts as North London Polytechnic, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Herriot-Watt University, he spent twenty-seven years at University College London. The author of nine previous books, he is a former Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC, a recipient of the Arthur Goodzeit Prize of the New York Military Affairs Symposium, and a three-times winner of the Templer Medal awarded by the Society for Army Historical Research. He is now Professor Emeritus at UCL, a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association, and a Vice-President of the Army Records Society.
Summary
A compelling and original survey of British grand strategy in the inter-war period, underlining the inexorable relationships between foreign policy, grand strategy, military force, intelligence, finance and not least, domestic politics and public opinion.
