Introduction – The Approach Taken: Why Britain, France and the United States? 1. The Anglo-Saxons and the French: The build-up to the First World War 2. The Allies During the First World War and Paris Peace Conference 3. Difficult Relations in the 1920s – of Reparations, Debts and ’Rumo(u)rs of War’ 4. France, Britain and the United States in the 1930s until the Fall of France 5. Conclusion: Britain, France and the United States in 1940

Andrew J. Williams is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. His main research interests include international history, and international conflict analysis. His most recent books include International History and International Relations (with Amelia Hadfield and Simon Rofe, 2012) and he is the co-editor of The International History Review.