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Victory through Coalition

Germany’s invasion of France in August 1914 represented a threat to

the Great Power status of both Britain and France. The two countries

had no history of cooperation, yet the entente they had created in 1904

proceeded by trial and error, via recriminations, to win a war of unpre-

cedented scale and ferocity. Elizabeth Greenhalgh here examines the

huge problem of finding a suitable command relationship in the field

and in the two capitals. She details the civil–military relations on each

side, the political and military relations between the two powers, the

maritime and industrial collaborations that were indispensable to an

industrialised war effort and the Allied prosecution of war on the

Western Front. Although it was not until 1918 that many of the war-

winning expedients were adopted, Dr Greenhalgh shows that victory

was ultimately achieved because of, rather than in spite of, coalition.

LIZABETH GREENHALGH is a research fellow at the University of New

South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, and

the Joint Editor of War & Society.

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Major General Olinto Mark Basanti Professor of Military

History, and Director, Center for the Study of Military

History, University of North Texas

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Victory through Coalition

Britain and France during the First World War

Elizabeth Greenhalgh

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