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The pity of war : England and Germany, bitter friends, beloved foes / Miranda Seymour.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection DA47.2 .S48 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seymour, Miranda.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--Germany.
- Great Britain.
- International relations.
- Germany.
- Germany--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History.
- History.
- Germany--History.
- Physical Description:
- 502 pages : illustrations
- Other Title:
- England and Germany, bitter friends, beloved foes
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
- Contents:
- Part 1: From a Protestant alliance to the ending of an empire (1613-1919)
- Noble endeavours
- Exiles and travellers (1613-1782)
- Romantic exchanges (1790-1830)
- Count Smorltork's progress (1826-32)
- The age of virtue (1830-60)
- Elizabeth Fry, Florence Nightingale and Charles de Bunsen's German hospital (1840-52)
- Germanising England : The Albert effect (1840-61)
- Travels in a foreign land (1840-60)
- The eagle and the lion (1858-88)
- Lululaund and other adventures (1880-1910)
- The age of apprehension (1888-1901)
- The friendship under strain (1902-10)
- The rift widens (1906-14)
- Debacle (1913-14)
- Victims of circumstance : England in Germany (1914-18)
- Victims of circumstance : Germany in England (1914-18)
- Pay-back (1918-19)
- Part 2: From Versailles to the verge of war (1919-40)
- Love among the ruins (1919-23)
- Reconnecting (1924-30)
- Falling in love again : Tom Mitford (1909-45)
- Entering the abyss (1928-34)
- Nikolaus Pevsner : The odd one out (1929-33)
- The young ambassadors (1930-39)
- And then, there was romance (1930-39)
- Part 3: Moving beyond repair
- Exodus (1933-8)
- Noble endeavours (1933-40)
- Resisters and informers (1933-40)
- Fate and circumstance (1939-45)
- Only connect
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "Originally published as Noble endeavours : the life of two countries, England and Germany, in many stories by Simon & Schuster UK, Ltd." -- Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 1442241748
- 9781442241749
- OCLC:
- 884480337
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