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Friend or Foe: An Anglo-Saxon History of France

Door Alistair Horne

Categorie
Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer
#268895
Titel
Friend or Foe: An Anglo-Saxon History of France
Auteur
Horne, Alistair
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Phoenix
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
0753819252
ISBN13
9780753819258
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
A century after the Entente Cordiale ended centuries of war and enmity between France and Britain, and two hundred years after the coronation of Britain's deadly enemy, Napoleon Bonaparte, as Emperor, Alistair Horne contemplates two thousand years of France. The Entente Cordiale meant different things to the signatories. For France it meant, quite simply, the certainty at last of an ally who would counter-balance the dread power of Kaiser Wilhelm II's vast and menacing Reich on her doorstep. For Britain the Entente signified an end to centuries of conflict with France, but it also meant inevitable involvement in a major European war. The modern rift over the Iraq war has emphasized once again that a slim channel of water may be all that separates the countries physically, but in temperame... (Lees verder)nt, in attitudes, in life generally -- and, particularly, in history itself -- the differences remain fundamental, and intense.
Pagina's
522
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 9,00

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