Ebook: The pity of war: England and Germany, bitter friends, beloved foes
Author: Seymour Miranda
- Tags: Germany -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain, Germany -- History, Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Germany, Great Britain -- History, Deutschland, Großbritannien
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- City: Deutschland;Germany;Great Britain;Großbritannien;Lanham
- Language: English
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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...
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...
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