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Don't Mention The War. The British and the Germans since 1890

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#259037
Titel	Don't Mention The War. The British and the Germans since 1890
Auteur	Ramsden, John
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Abacus
Jaar van uitgave	2007
ISBN10	0349115397
ISBN13	9780349115399
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	The Times decided in 1891 that 'Germany does not excite in any class among us the slightest feeling of distrust or antipathy' - the zenith of a century in which Britons admired German culture and our monarchy was closely involved with Germany royalty. Yet twenty-five years later began the era of world wars in which Britain and Germany were twice pitted against each other. After 1945, it seemed that Britain would learn to co-exist on happier terms with newly democratic Germany, yet persistent memories of 1940 have slowed that process, hesitations reinforced by the showing of war films on television, chants on the terraces, and populist tabloid gibes. John Ramsden's groundbreaking book looks at every aspect of Anglo-German relations for the last 100 years: from the wars themselves to how t... (Lees verder)hey have been seen by the tabloids as re-enacted in subsequent football matches. And he askes 'What is the British problem with Germany?' As Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin once said 'I tries 'ard, but I 'ates 'em'.
Pagina's	444
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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