End of the Affair: The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1939 - 40

Eleanor M. Gates’s End of the Affair: The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1939-40 offers a meticulous diplomatic and military history that probes one of World War II’s most consequential ruptures: the breakdown of cooperation between Britain and France in the face of German aggression. Spanning from the uncertain early months of the war through France’s collapse in 1940, Gates reconstructs how strategic disagreements, mismatched military expectations, diplomatic misfires, and politic...