10. The ‘Special Relationship’: A Diverting British Myth?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Tables vi
4. Acknowledgements vi
5. INTRODUCTION vii
6. PART I MYTHS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
7. 1. Balance of Power, European Concert and Integration: The Myth of a Changing International System 1
8. 2. Myths That Keep Small Powers Going: Internationalist Idealism in the Netherlands 15
9. 3. The Myth of Swedish Neutrality 28
10. 4. The Green Peril 41
11. PART II COMPROMISE OR COMPROMISED?
12. 5. The Spanish Civil War: ‘Betrayal’ by the Bourgeois Democracies 51
13. 6. Munich, or the Blood of Others 65
14. 7. Yalta, the Myth of the Division of the World 80
15. 8. The Myth of Potsdam 92
16. 9. Clichés of Our Memory 103
17. PART III SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS
18. 10. The ‘Special Relationship’: A Diverting British Myth? 115
19. 11. Is Britain Part of Europe? The Myth of British ‘Difference’ 135
20. 12. Dunkirk, Diên Biên Phu, Suez or Why France Does Not Trust Allies and Has Learnt to Love the Bomb 157
21. 13. Marianne and Michel: The Franco-German Coupl 175
22. PART IV MYTHS OF GERMANY
23. 14. The Myth of the German Sonderweg 207
24. 15. The Myth of Prussia 223
25. 16. Rapallo: Sirens and Phantoms 235
26. CONCLUSIONS 259
27. APPENDIX: THE BERLINMYTH 275
28. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 285
29. INDEX 289