Cross Channel Currents
100 Years of the Entente Cordiale
Douglas Johnson editor Robert Tombs editor Richard Mayne editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:8th Apr '04
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
'Cross-Channel Currents, a thought-provoking collection of fifty or so historical and political essays, reminiscences and futurology, by distinguished French and British authors, published to mark this week's hundredth anniversary of this elusive Entente.' - The Independent
ISBN: 9780415346610
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 780g
344 pages