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Our relations with our cousins across the north sea have had more ups and downs than a helicopter, and will doubtless continue to do so. As Emperor William once pointed out, both he and his mother were obstinate people because they had the same English blood in their veins. Did he mean German blood – or are they both the same thing? Whatever - this very informative title takes a long hard incisive look at the love-hate relationship which has endured for so long, and in the process provides us with plenty of food for thought.
If you enjoy this title, you might also find [[Red Love: The Story of an East German Family by Maxim Leo]] with its spotlight on life in the old socialist pre-reunification state of interest, likewise [[Panther Soup: A European Journey in War and Peace by John Gimlette]] which is primarily a travel book but offers some useful observations on current thinking. For a close examination on relations between the closely-related British and German ruling houses in the nineteenth century, there is my own [[Queen Victoria and the European Empires by John Van der Kiste\|Queen Victoria and the European Empires]]; and for a biography of one of the leading Anglo-German cultural icons, a study of the eighteenth-century composer, [[Handel: The Man and His Music by Jonathan Keates]].
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