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A completely fresh look at the culture clash 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.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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