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That Sweet Enemy: The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present
Isabelle Tombs
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Description for That Sweet Enemy: The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present
Paperback. From Blenheim and Waterloo to 'Up Yours, Delors' and 'Hop Off You Frogs', the cross-Channel relationship has been one of rivalry and suspicion. This book tells the complex story of the relationship, from the beginning of the great struggle for mastery during the reign of Louis XIV to the second Iraq War and the enlargement of the EU. Num Pages: 816 pages, app 60 integrated maps and illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1178.
From Blenheim and Waterloo to 'Up Yours, Delors' and 'Hop Off You Frogs', the cross-Channel relationship has been one of rivalry, misapprehension and suspicion. But it has also been a relationship of envy, admiration and affection.
In the nearly two centuries since the final defeat of Napoleon, France and Britain have spent much of that time as allies - an alliance that has been almost as uneasy, as competitive and as ambivalent as the generations of warfare. Their rivalry both on peace and war, for good and ill, has shaped the modern world, from North America to India ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
816
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
816
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845951085
SKU
V9781845951085
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Ref
99-27
About Isabelle Tombs
Isabelle Tombs (née Bussy) was born in France, studied at the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), and did a PhD on modern British history at Trinity College, Cambridge. Robert Tombs was born in England and studied at Cambridge. He did research for his PhD on modern French history in France, where he was attached to the Université de Paris IV ... Read more
Reviews for That Sweet Enemy: The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present
An outstanding study of a three-century love-hate relationship... hugely readable
Andrew Roberts
Sunday Times
Epic, instructive and engaging
Independent
An intellectual feast
Times Literary Supplement
Deftly written and meticulously researched... packed with detail and anecdote
John Thornhill
Financial Times
Well-written and thoroughly researched... There is as good an account as ... Read more
Andrew Roberts
Sunday Times
Epic, instructive and engaging
Independent
An intellectual feast
Times Literary Supplement
Deftly written and meticulously researched... packed with detail and anecdote
John Thornhill
Financial Times
Well-written and thoroughly researched... There is as good an account as ... Read more