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Carregando... Noble Endeavours: The Life of Two Countries, England and Germany, in Many Storiesde Miranda Seymour, Miranda Seymour
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) Kakania | Oct 28, 2019 |  I thoroughly enjoyed this book because although the history was known, the experiences made it seem so much more grounded in reality. In particular the sufferings of the German nationals during the Second World War and the antics of the naive youth of the 1930s who visited Germany and became entranced by Hitler. Little vignettes of extraordinary lives bring history alive! (  ) pluckedhighbrow | Jun 26, 2017 | In talking about the relationship between England and Germany, the author set out originally to write about the years between the two world wars, but found herself drawn to a much earlier history with an extraordinary cast of characters from both countries, including Prince Pueckler-Muskau and Lucie, Theodor Fontane, Sir Edward Goschen, Prince Lichnowsky, Margot Asquith, Daisy Pless and Hansel, Tisa Schulenburg, Hubert Herkomer and James Boswell. We, the readers, are treated to anecdotes about all of these and many other people who influenced and were affected by the relationship between the two countries. Miranda Seymour's book contains new material and surprises on nearly every page. I enjoyed it, and I'm sure that anyone else who is interested in the English view of Germany and the German view of England would come away with a wealth of new knowledge from reading it. (  ) SunnyJim | Feb 11, 2017 | The about this book is that I liked some of the chapters and some not so much. The problem I had with some chapters is that the writing style was too much at once. It seemed like the author wanted to put in a lot of information and by doing that she jumped from one interesting person to another one and to another one and to another one, and then back to the first one. So with those chapters I would have wanted less and more. Less people, and more information about the people in the book. I am like that, I always want more and here there were not enough. Ok to the chapters I liked then, they were more fleshed out but I would have wanted even more. As I said there are A LOT of people mentioned in this book and some interesting ones were about Queen Victoria and her children. And the Winter Queen. For the historical non-fiction lover this is a true treasure. 300 years of history between Germany and England. A lot of people that were new to me, some I did not know a lot about and all the rest. And they sure wanted to better the relationship between the countries. (  ) blodeuedd | Mar 2, 2016 | The Pity of War: England and Germany, Bitter Friends, Beloved Foes by Miranda Seymour (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, $32). Sometimes, it’s easy to forget that most of the heads of state during World War I—which began a mere century ago—were related. Queen Victoria, only recently passed, was called “the grandmother of Europe,” but her funeral in 1901 brought together powers—including her son, Britain’s Edward VIII, and her eldest grandson, Kaiser Wilhelm II—who would soon be at each other’s throats. But Miranda Seymour’s examination of the relationship between Britain and Germany, The Pity of War: England and Germany, Bitter Friends, Beloved Foes, goes further, detailing just how complex and long the tugs of war and love have been between the two states. Seymour uses narratives of individual lives, both royal and common, to show how closely tied the two nations are; the term “Anglo-Saxon” goes back to the fifth century, when the first merging of the peoples occurred. The bottom line is that all people are related to each other, though nationalism and tribalism often prevent us from seeing that. Seymour’s work makes clear that the differences between the English and the Germans are superficial and recent; perhaps recognizing our relationships can help us avoid more internecine war. Reviewed on Lit/Rant: www.litrant.tumblr.com ( ) KelMunger | Jan 26, 2015 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
In 1613, a beautiful Stuart princess married a handsome young German prince. This was a love match, but it was also an alliance that aimed to meld Europe's two great Protestant powers. Before Elizabeth and Frederick left London for the court in Heidelberg, they watched a performance of The Winter's Tale. In 1943, a group of British POWs gave a performance of that same play to a group of enthusiastic Nazi guards in Bavaria. Nothing about the story of England and Germany, as this remarkable book demonstrates, is as simple as we might expect. Miranda Seymour tells the forgotten story of England's centuries of profound connection and increasingly rivalrous friendship with Germany, linked by a shared faith, a shared hunger for power, a shared culture (Germany never doubted that Shakespeare belonged to them, as much as to England), and a shared leadership. German monarchs ruled over England for three hundred years--and only ceased to do so through a change of name. This extraordinary and heart-breaking history--told through the lives of princes and painters, soldiers and sailors, bakers and bankers, charlatans and saints--traces two countries so entwined that one German living in England in 1915 refused to choose where his allegiance lay. It was, he said, as if his parents had quarreled. Germany's connection to the island it loved, patronized, influenced, and fought was unique. Indeed, British soldiers went to war in 1914 against a country to which many of them--as one freely confessed the week before his death on the battlefront--felt more closely connected than to their own. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished papers and personal interviews, the author has uncovered stories that remind us--poignantly, wittily, and tragically--of the powerful bonds many have chosen to forget. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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