From Versailles to Mers El-Kebir: The Promise of Anglo-French Naval Cooperation, 1919-40 (Melton G. E.) ; Naval Institute Press, 2015

The two decades before World War II were some of the most unsettled in modern history. From Versailles to Mers el-Kebir examines one of the most unlikely--and perhaps least studied--relationships to form during that turbulent era: the alliance of the Royal Navy and the French fleet. Beginning from a global perspective and gradually narrowing, George E. Melton brings new insights to the diplomacy that led to this often strained cooperation and reinterprets some of the most important events of early World War II. By the mid-1930s the Royal Navy and French fleet had overextended themselves with global defense commitments, owing mainly to the collapse of the world war alliances and to an ominous shift in the balance of world naval power. To maximize their power, England and France combined their assets in a naval alliance.

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