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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1811
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590476024
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
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Release : 1811
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:34333196
Author : Jan Rüger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199672462
On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, fifty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. A long tradition of rivalry was to come to an end here, in the ruins of Hitler's island fortress. Pressed as to why it was not prepared to give Heligoland back, the British government declared that the island represented everything that was wrong with the Germans: 'If any tradition was worth breaking, and if any sentiment was worth changing, then the German sentiment about Heligoland was such a one'. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, Jan Ruger explores how Britain and Germany have collided and collaborated in this North Sea enclave. For much of the nineteenth century, this was Britain's smallest colony, an inconvenient and notoriously discontented outpost at the edge of Europe. Situated at the fault line between imperial and national histories, the island became a metaphor for Anglo-German rivalry once Germany had acquired it in 1890. Turned into a naval stronghold under the Kaiser and again under Hitler, it was fought over in both world wars. Heavy bombardment by the Allies reduced it to ruins, until the Royal Navy re-took it in May 1945. Returned to West Germany in 1952, it became a showpiece of reconciliation, but one that continues to wear the scars of the twentieth century. Tracing this rich history of contact and conflict from the Napoleonic Wars to the Cold War, Heligoland brings to life a fascinating microcosm of the Anglo-German relationship. For generations this cliff-bound island expressed a German will to bully and battle Britain; and it mirrored a British determination to prevent Germany from establishing hegemony on the Continent. Caught in between were the Heligolanders and those involved with them: spies and smugglers, poets and painters, sailors and soldiers. Far more than just the history of a small island in the North Sea, this is the compelling story of a relationship which has defined modern Europe.
Author : James Bohn,James George Stuart Burges Bohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN : OSU:32435001811892
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1114 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11455955
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:C2643740
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3899174461
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UCAL:C2645113
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Books
ISBN : PSU:000009932791
Author : Liverpool (England). Public Libraries, Museums, and Art Gallery,Liverpool City Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : MINN:31951002000947Z
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : English literature
ISBN : CORNELL:31924055068872
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UCAL:B2927673
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : HARVARD:HN33XH
Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : English imprints
ISBN : UOM:39015084656803