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Cross Channel Currents Explores The Understandings And Misunderstandings That Make Up The Entente Cordiale - The Hundred-year Relationship Between Britain And France, As Well As The Everyday Common Interests And Shared Pleasures That Give It Substance. Contributors Include The Late Roy Jenkins, In A Witty And Personal View Of Winston Churchill's Relationship With France; Pierre Messmer, A Companion Of Charles De Gaulle During World War Ii And Later His Prime Minister; Former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, Who Remembers The Historic Meeting Of Edward Heath And Georges Pompidou; Hubert Vedrine, A Former French Foreign Minister, On The Difficulties Of Cross-channel Relations; And Their Successors Dominique De Villepin And Jack Straw.