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1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue; and suspicions of Germany's ambitions bred a paranoia expressed in a rash of ‘invasion scare’ literature. Then when shots rang out in Sarajevo on 28 June, they set in train a tumble of diplomatic dominos that led to Britain declaring war on Germany. Nigel Jones depicts every facet of a year that changed Britain for ever. From gun-running in Ulster to an attack by suffragettes on a Velasquez painting in the National Gallery; from the launch of HMHS Britannic to cricketer J.T. Hearne’s 3000th first-class wicket; from the opening of London’s first nightclub to the embarking for Belgium of the BEF, he traces the events of a momentous year from its benign domestic beginnings to its descent into the nightmare of European war.
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Peace and War, Nigel H. Jones
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
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- Titel
- Peace and War
- Untertitel
- Britain In 1914
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Nigel H. Jones
- Verlag
- Head of Zeus
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 272
- ISBN10
- 1781852537
- ISBN13
- 9781781852538
- Reihe
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Historisches Thema, Kriege, Britische Literatur, Erster Weltkrieg (1914–1918)
- Beschreibung
- 1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue; and suspicions of Germany's ambitions bred a paranoia expressed in a rash of ‘invasion scare’ literature. Then when shots rang out in Sarajevo on 28 June, they set in train a tumble of diplomatic dominos that led to Britain declaring war on Germany. Nigel Jones depicts every facet of a year that changed Britain for ever. From gun-running in Ulster to an attack by suffragettes on a Velasquez painting in the National Gallery; from the launch of HMHS Britannic to cricketer J.T. Hearne’s 3000th first-class wicket; from the opening of London’s first nightclub to the embarking for Belgium of the BEF, he traces the events of a momentous year from its benign domestic beginnings to its descent into the nightmare of European war.