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Heligoland - Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea (Hardcover)
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Heligoland - Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea (Hardcover)
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On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear
explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North
Sea, thirty miles off the German coast, which for generations had
stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. A long
tradition of rivalry was to come to an end here, in the ruins of
Hitler's island fortress. Pressed as to why it was not prepared to
give Heligoland back, the British government declared that the
island represented everything that was wrong with the Germans: 'If
any tradition was worth breaking, and if any sentiment was worth
changing, then the German sentiment about Heligoland was such a
one'. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, Jan Ruger
explores how Britain and Germany have collided and collaborated in
this North Sea enclave. For much of the nineteenth century, this
was Britain's smallest colony, an inconvenient and notoriously
discontented outpost at the edge of Europe. Situated at the fault
line between imperial and national histories, the island became a
metaphor for Anglo-German rivalry once Germany acquired it in 1890.
Turned into a naval stronghold under the Kaiser and again under
Hitler, it was fought over in both world wars. Heavy bombardment by
the Allies reduced it to ruins, until the Royal Navy re-took it in
May 1945. Returned to West Germany in 1952, it became a showpiece
of reconciliation, but one that continues to bear the scars of the
twentieth century. Tracing this rich history of contact and
conflict from the Napoleonic Wars to the Cold War, Heligoland
brings to life a fascinating microcosm of the Anglo-German
relationship. For generations this cliff-bound island expressed a
German will to bully and battle Britain; and it mirrored a British
determination to prevent Germany from establishing hegemony on the
Continent. Caught in between were the Heligolanders and those
involved with them: spies and smugglers, poets and painters,
sailors and soldiers. Heligoland is the compelling story of a
relationship which has defined modern Europe.
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