Author: HAWES, JAMES.
Title: Englanders and Huns. How Five Decades of Enmity Led to the First World War.
Description: London: Simon & Schuster, 2014. 9780857205285. 1st edition. "Packed with long-forgotten stories such as the murdeer of Queen Victoria's cook in Bonn, 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 tragic-comic, delusions and miscalculations that led to ..the Great War." Pp.x/437, occasional reproductions of cartoon illustrations of the time. Dark blue boards, dustwrapper has minor creasing to rear top edge and small tear to rear top corner fold. VG/VG.

Keywords: Hawes Englanders Huns Enmity Germany England Britain First World War Bismarck Franco Prussian War European History 52166 History: : European


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