Entente Cordiale Centenary - Welcome
RSE Lecture: From Entente to Alliance
A free public lecture given at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 14 June 2004 by Professor Hew Strachan FRSE, Chichele Professor of History of War, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
"This year sees the centenary of the Entente Cordiale between Britain and France. But the deal which they struck after centuries of enmity had no obligations and little definition. It required the First World War to make them true allies, and it was the Second World War which nearly broke the relationship."
"Click here" to read the article which accompanied the lecture, published in the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute in April 2004, and simultaneoulsy in French in Defense Nationale.
