A gripping portrait of life in Britain in a year that shook
Europe to its foundations
1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines
within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil
war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue;
and suspicions of Germany's ambitions bred a paranoia expressed in
a rash of "invasion scare" literature. Then when shots rang out in
Sarajevo on June 28th, they set in motion a tumble of diplomatic
dominos that led to Britain declaring war on Germany. Nigel Jones
depicts every facet of a year that changed Britain for ever. From
gun-running in Ulster to an attack by suffragettes on a Velasquez
painting in the National Gallery; from the launch of HMHS
"Britannic" to cricketer J.T. Hearne's 3,000th first-class wicket;
from the opening of London's first nightclub to the embarking for
Belgium of the BEF, he traces the events of a momentous year, its
benign domestic beginnings to its descent into the nightmare of
European war.
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