Robert Tombs is an expert on Franco-British relations both academically and personally ... he and research fellow Emile Chabal brought a Premier League Franco-British team to St John’s College Cambridge to discuss the ‘Truth, Myth and Memory’ of the complex relationship between Britain and France in two world wars ... <i>Britain and France</i> is a good example how a group of historians can write good comparative history.

- Robert Gildea, Modern & Contemporary France

The contributors offer new insights on Franco-British relations, past and present, on the way both countries viewed each other in 1914–1918 and 1939–1945, and how they have remembered those periods ... [They] go beyond the theme of a “love–hate” relationship, thus adding to Franco-British scholarship a comparative – at times transnational – history of France and Britain’s memory.

- Charlotte Faucher, Queen Mary University of London, UK, Contemporary French Civilization

This volume is an immensely engaging and wide-ranging work of scholarship, with valuable and original insights into the Anglo-French experience and memory of both world wars.

- Heather Jones, The London School of Economics and Political Science