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PEACE AND WAR
BRITAIN IN 1914 |
| By: |
Nigel Jones |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£25.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1781852537 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781781852538 |
| Publisher: |
HEAD OF ZEUS |
| Pub. date: |
30 January, 2014 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
A wide-ranging and lively portrait of cultural and social life in Britain in a year that shook Europe to its foundations. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
Colour Illus |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Head of Zeus |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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