Don't Mention the War

Don't Mention the War

Einband:
Poche format B
EAN:
9780349115399
Untertitel:
The British and the Germans since 1890
Genre:
Geschichte
Autor:
John Ramsden
Herausgeber:
Little, Brown and Company
Anzahl Seiten:
464
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.08.2007
ISBN:
0349115397

* An entertaining, informative and readable book about the rivalries between Britain and Germany over the last hundred years

Ramsden's perambulation through more than a century of inter-state relationships and anecdotes is as amusing as it is enlightening Informationen zum Autor John Ramsden is Professor of Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. Klappentext 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 they 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'. * An entertaining, informative and readable book about the rivalries between Britain and Germany over the last hundred years Zusammenfassung * An entertaining, informative and readable book about the rivalries between Britain and Germany over the last hundred years

Autorentext
John Ramsden is Professor of Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London.

Klappentext
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 they 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'.


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