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Cargando... Peace and War: Britain In 1914por Nigel Jones
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book recounts in a very readable form the Britain of the eve of the First World War in all its complexity. The author shows how the stereotype of a peaceful and sunny Edwardian summer rudely shattered by War at the height of a hot summer is only one perspective, that of a small proportion at the top of society. In reality Britain was a very divided country and full of conflict and violence. Ireland was about to erupt into civil war (when The Times announced on 27 July that "there can no longer be the slightest doubt that the country is now confronted with one of the greatest crises in the history of the British race" it was not at all referring to the Balkans). The suffragettes' campaign was reaching levels of violence and meeting with levels of counter violence arguably both greater than in any social protest movement of more recent years. Industrial relations were sharply confrontational and social divisions yawned widely. The War did temporarily put a halt to many of these crises with its all embracing nature affecting the whole of society. The author does a good job of showing the fundamental nature of this watershed in the middle of the year. He did spend a little too much time on painters and the Bloomsbury set for me and I largely skimmed those chapters. A large number of interesting photographs as well, most of which I don't recall seeing in other books. Very good. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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 Sara-jevo 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A wonderful read that has an annotated bibliography that makes it easy for the reader to follow up on a personality of issue. ( )