Series BRIDGEMAN 7 - Correspondence, 1977-1978, with researcher Martin Alexander on Anglo-French military relations in 1939-1940

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BRIDGEMAN 7

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Correspondence, 1977-1978, with researcher Martin Alexander on Anglo-French military relations in 1939-1940

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  • 1977 Sep 20 - 1978 Aug 21 (Creation)

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Correspondence between Bridgeman and Martin Alexander, a second year research student at St Anthony's College, Oxford writing a thesis entitled 'The Maginot Line and the defence of France in British and French strategy in the 1930s'. Includes Alexander's questions and Bridgeman's replies on Franco-British military relations in 1939-1940, when Bridgeman was General Staff Officer Grade 1 at the Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force, and a copy of a paper by Alexander comparing the pre-war mechanisation in the French and British armies.

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