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Englanders and Huns James Hawes

Englanders and Huns By James Hawes

Englanders and Huns by James Hawes


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Agripping social, cultural and political history of how Britain and Germany, two nations with such close ties, ended up fighting World War One.

Englanders and Huns Summary

Englanders and Huns: The Culture-Clash which Led to the First World War by James Hawes

A completely fresh look at the enmity between Britain and Germany that all but destroyed Europe.

Half a century before 1914, most Britons saw the Germans as poor and rather comical cousins - and most Germans looked up to the British as their natural mentors. Over the next five decades, each came to think that the other simply had to be confronted - in Europe, in Africa, in the Pacific and at last in the deadly race to cover the North Sea with dreadnoughts.

But why? Why did so many Britons come to see in Germany everything that was fearful and abhorrent? Why did so many Germans come to see any German who called dobbel fohltwhile playing Das Lawn Tennisas the dupe of a global conspiracy?

Packed with long-forgotten stories such as the murder of Queen Victoria's cook in Bohn, the disaster to Germany's ironclads under the White Cliffs, bizarre early colonial clashes and the precise, dark moment when Anglophobia begat modern anti-Semitism, this is the fifty-year saga of the tragic, and often tragicomic, delusions and miscalculations that led to the defining cataclysm of our times - the breaking of empires and the womb of horrors, the Great War. Richly illustrated with the words and pictures that formed our ancestors' disastrous opinions, it will forever change the telling of this fateful tale.

About James Hawes

James Hawes is a former professional archaeologist and university lecturer in German, Doctor of German literature in the lead-up to WW1, novelist and Kafka biographer.

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GOR005440446
9780857205285
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Englanders and Huns: The Culture-Clash which Led to the First World War by James Hawes
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Simon & Schuster Ltd
2014-02-13
448
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