Don't Mention The War: The British and the Germans since 1890: The British and the Germans Since 1890 - The British and modern Germany - Hardcover

Ramsden, Professor John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316861227 ISBN 13: 9780316861229

Verlag: Little, Brown, 2006

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A lucid, funny history of our attitude to the Germans since the Victorian age, encompassing everything from the Battle of the Somme to Fawlty Towers (Dominic Sandbrook, DAILY TELEGRAPH Books of the Year 2006)

Ramsden's book traces an extraordinary relationship that was central to Europe's 20th century. In 1890 "an Anglo-German war seemed utterly fantastic" - but in 2001, beating Germany 5-1 could turn "perfectly sane people all over England" mad with joy. DON (GUARDIAN)

Germanophobes and Germanophiles alike will find much to enjoy in this glorious synthesis of anecdotes and prejudices (Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES)

Ramsden's perambulation through more than a century of inter-state relationships and anecdotes is as amusing as it is enlightening (GLASGOW HERALD)

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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 the 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 in fights to the death. After 1945, it seemed that Britain would learn to co-exist on terms of normality with newly-democratic Germany, yet persistent memories of 1940 have continued to obstruct that process, hesitations reinforced by the relentless showing of war films on television, chants from football crowds, and populist gibes from the tabloids.
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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• Verlag: Little, Brown
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0316861227
• ISBN 13: 9780316861229
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448