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The Pity of War
England and Germany, Bitter Friends, Beloved Foes
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ISBN-13:
9781442241756
Veröffentl:
2014
Seiten:
528
Autor:
Miranda Seymour
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Miranda Seymour tells the remarkable story of England’s centuries of profound connection and rivalry with Germany. Her vibrant and heart-breaking history—told through the lives of princes and painters, soldiers and sailors, bakers and bankers, charlatans and saints—reminds us, poignantly, of the powerful bonds many have chosen to forget.
In 1613, a beautiful Stuart princess married a handsome young German prince. This was a love match, but it was also an alliance that aimed to meld Europe's two great Protestant powers. Before Elizabeth and Frederick left London for the court in Heidelberg, they watched a performance of The Winter's Tale. In 1943, a group of British POWs gave a performance of that same play to a group of enthusiastic Nazi guards in Bavaria. Nothing about the story of England and Germany, as this remarkable book demonstrates, is as simple as we might expect.
Miranda Seymour tells the forgotten story of England’s centuries of profound connection and increasingly rivalrous friendship with Germany, linked by a shared faith, a shared hunger for power, a shared culture (Germany never doubted that Shakespeare belonged to them, as much as to England), and a shared leadership. German monarchs ruled over England for three hundred years—and only ceased to do so through a change of name.
This extraordinary and heart-breaking history—told through the lives of princes and painters, soldiers and sailors, bakers and bankers, charlatans and saints—traces two countries so entwined that one German living in England in 1915 refused to choose where his allegiance lay. It was, he said, as if his parents had quarreled. Germany’s connection to the island it loved, patronized, influenced, and fought was unique. Indeed, British soldiers went to war in 1914 against a country to which many of them—as one freely confessed the week before his death on the battlefront—felt more closely connected than to their own. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished papers and personal interviews, the author has uncovered stories that remind us—poignantly, wittily, and tragically—of the powerful bonds many have chosen to forget.
Miranda Seymour tells the forgotten story of England’s centuries of profound connection and increasingly rivalrous friendship with Germany, linked by a shared faith, a shared hunger for power, a shared culture (Germany never doubted that Shakespeare belonged to them, as much as to England), and a shared leadership. German monarchs ruled over England for three hundred years—and only ceased to do so through a change of name.
This extraordinary and heart-breaking history—told through the lives of princes and painters, soldiers and sailors, bakers and bankers, charlatans and saints—traces two countries so entwined that one German living in England in 1915 refused to choose where his allegiance lay. It was, he said, as if his parents had quarreled. Germany’s connection to the island it loved, patronized, influenced, and fought was unique. Indeed, British soldiers went to war in 1914 against a country to which many of them—as one freely confessed the week before his death on the battlefront—felt more closely connected than to their own. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished papers and personal interviews, the author has uncovered stories that remind us—poignantly, wittily, and tragically—of the powerful bonds many have chosen to forget.
PART ONE
FROM A PROTESTANT ALLIANCE TO THE ENDING OF AN EMPIRE (1613–1919)
1 Noble Endeavours
2 Exiles and Travellers (1613–1782)
3 Romantic Exchanges (1790–1830)
4 Count Smorltork’s Progress (1826–32)
5 The Age of Virtue (1830–60)
6 Elizabeth Fry, Florence Nightingale and Charles de Bunsen’s German Hospital (1840–52)
7 Germanising England: The Albert Effect (1840–61)
8 Travels in a Foreign Land (1840–60)
9 The Eagle and the Lion (1858–88)
10 Lululaund and Other Adventures (1880–1910)
11 The Age of Apprehension (1888–1901)
12 The Friendship Under Strain (1902–10)
13 The Rift Widens (1906–14)
14 Debacle (1913–14)
15 Victims of Circumstance: England in Germany (1914–18)
16 Victims of Circumstance: Germany in England (1914–18)
17 Pay-Back (1918–19)
PART TWO
FROM VERSAILLES TO THE VERGE OF WAR (1919–40)
18 Love Among the Ruins (1919–23)
19 Reconnecting (1924–30)
20 Falling in Love Again: Tom Mitford (1909–45)
21 Entering the Abyss (1928–34)
22 Nikolaus Pevsner: The Odd One Out (1929–33)
23 The Young Ambassadors (1930–39)
24 And Then, There Was Romance (1930–39)
PART THREE
MOVING BEYOND REPAIR
25 Exodus (1933–8)
26 Noble Endeavours (1933–40)
27 Resisters and Informers (1933–40)
28 Fate and Circumstance (1939–45)
29 Only Connect
Afterword
FROM A PROTESTANT ALLIANCE TO THE ENDING OF AN EMPIRE (1613–1919)
1 Noble Endeavours
2 Exiles and Travellers (1613–1782)
3 Romantic Exchanges (1790–1830)
4 Count Smorltork’s Progress (1826–32)
5 The Age of Virtue (1830–60)
6 Elizabeth Fry, Florence Nightingale and Charles de Bunsen’s German Hospital (1840–52)
7 Germanising England: The Albert Effect (1840–61)
8 Travels in a Foreign Land (1840–60)
9 The Eagle and the Lion (1858–88)
10 Lululaund and Other Adventures (1880–1910)
11 The Age of Apprehension (1888–1901)
12 The Friendship Under Strain (1902–10)
13 The Rift Widens (1906–14)
14 Debacle (1913–14)
15 Victims of Circumstance: England in Germany (1914–18)
16 Victims of Circumstance: Germany in England (1914–18)
17 Pay-Back (1918–19)
PART TWO
FROM VERSAILLES TO THE VERGE OF WAR (1919–40)
18 Love Among the Ruins (1919–23)
19 Reconnecting (1924–30)
20 Falling in Love Again: Tom Mitford (1909–45)
21 Entering the Abyss (1928–34)
22 Nikolaus Pevsner: The Odd One Out (1929–33)
23 The Young Ambassadors (1930–39)
24 And Then, There Was Romance (1930–39)
PART THREE
MOVING BEYOND REPAIR
25 Exodus (1933–8)
26 Noble Endeavours (1933–40)
27 Resisters and Informers (1933–40)
28 Fate and Circumstance (1939–45)
29 Only Connect
Afterword