Britain and France in Two World Wars: Truth, Myth and Memory 1st Edition by Robert Tombs (PDF)

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France and Britain, indispensable allies in two world wars, remember and forget their shared history in contrasting ways. The book examines key episodes in the relationship between the two countries, including the outbreak of war in 1914, the battles of the Somme and Verdun, the Fall of France in 1940, Dunkirk, and British involvement in the French Resistance and the 1944 Liberation. The contributors discuss how the two countries tend to forget what they owe to each other, and have a distorted view of history which still colours and prejudices their relationship today, despite government efforts to build a close political and military partnership.

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⭐A USEFUL BOOK TO ADD TO MY LIBRARY FOR MY NEXT SET OF STUDIES

⭐I bought this book as I am myself currently studying, at post graduate level, the way that the different belligerent nations assess and reflect on the Battle of Normandy fought in 1944. I saw that there was a chapter within this edition entitled the ‘British and the Liberation of France’, authored by a French History Professor. You would think that such an author, contributing to such a volume would have a basic grasp of the history he is attempting to analyse. This clearly isn’t the close in this this example with the author pretty much endorsing every myth ever created whilst at the same time distorting history to the extent that Saving Private Ryan becomes as credible as a historical source as this book does.It would be funny if not so scary that a prominent figure is academia can state in one chapter ‘The evidence is unambiguous: the memory of the D-Day landings has gradually been Americanized at the expense of the British… It is now up to the historian to piece together the true extent of the British contribution’ (page 138), only then for the author to quote, amongst many other misinformed passages, that after the ‘continued failures of the British to take Caen and to breakout of their sector ‘the Americans took over operations around Caen’ (page142).EPIC FAIL – in fact an embarrassment to academia, what the hell were Robert Tombs and Emile Chabal thinking in allowing such rubbish to be put into print.

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