Author: PORTUGAL AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918:
Title: Portugal pendant la Guerre et pendant La Paix. [1e edition; First edition].
Description: Lisbonne, Padroes de la Grande Guerre, 1922. Small 8°. Original wrappers. Covertitle in bold blue type with Portuguese State Coat-of-Arms at top, repeated on ti.-p. Printed within a double-barred thin black line-border. 100pp. Coloured plate featuring the Portuguese National Flag with National Hymn printed on verso. 18 captioned monochrome plates featuring many portuguese military commanders, topographical views of monuments and striking buildings, harbours and ships, full-page terrain sketch featuring the battle of La Lys, a section at the Western front defended by Portuguese troops, index, French language investigation into the history and aftermath of the role of Portugal as an ally of the allied forces in the First World War, when Portugal dropped its neutrality. Good untrimmed copy. Scarce. Despite having an alliance with Britain dating back to the Treaty of Windsor 1386 Portugal did not initially join the Allied forces opposing Germany and its allies at the beginning of the First World War. However tensions between Germany and Portugal arose about German U-boat warfare intending to create a blockade of the United Kingdom - at the time the most important market for Porguguese products. Clashes also occurred with german troops in the southern part of Purguguese Angola in 1914 and 1915. Tensions between Portugal and Germany grew as Portugal wished to comply with British requests and the will to protect her African colonies, so war was declared by the latter in which some 7000 Portuguese troops were killed.

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