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An acclaimed international bestseller which tells the story of Europe’s
most admired and feared country, from the Roman age to Charlemagne to
von Bismarck to Merkel. A country both admired and feared, Germany has
been the epicentre of world events time and again: the Reformation,
both World Wars, the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did not emerge as a
modern nation until 1871 – yet today, Germany is the world’s
fourth-largest economy and a standard-bearer of liberal democracy. With
more than 100 maps and images, this is a fresh, concise and
entertaining history which since release has sold over 300
000 copies internationally.
Journey across epic China – through millennia of early innovation to
modern dominance in one riveting, fast-paced read. From ancient times
to Xi Jinping, Covid-19 and the ‘wolf warriors’, here is the vast,
complex history of China, distilled into just 250 pages. Jaivin
dismantles the idea of a monolithic China, revealing instead a nation
of startling diversity. And she gives China’s women, from ancient
warriors, inventors and rebels to their 21st-century counterparts, long
overdue attention.
How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and
conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide.
England – begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of
beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor – is not quite
the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an
ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever
been bound up with that of its neighbours; and for the past millennia,
it has harboured a class system like nowhere else. There has never been
a better time to understand why England is the way it is – and there is
no better guide. With over 100 illustrations, maps and charts. Over 150
000 sold internationally.
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.
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Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
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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 book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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