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From Blenheim and Waterloo to 'Up Yours, Delors' and 'Hop Off You Frogs', the cross-Channel relationship has been one of rivalry, misapprehension and even of loathing. But it has also been a relationship of envy, admiration and even affection. While open warfare between the two was a constant occurrence, anglophilia and francophilia have long histories. And in the last two centuries, while France and Britain have spent much of that time as allies, that alliance has been almost as uneasy, as competitive and as ambivalent as the generations of warfare. Their rivalry, for good and ill, has shaped the modern world, from North America to the Middle East and SE Asia, and it is still shaping Europe today. Robert and Isabelle Tombs' magisterial book, by turns provocative and delightful, tells the rich and complex story of the relationship over three centuries, from the reign of Louis XIV to the second Iraq War and the latest expansion of the EU. A story of wars and alliances, but also of food, fashion, sport, literature, sex and music. "That Sweet Enemy" brings both British humour and Gallic panache to the story of the two countries, in sickness and in health, for richer for poorer, in triumph and in defeat, in dominance and in decline. The result is a triumph.
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'Deftly written and meticulously researched... Packed with detail and anecdote -- John Thornhill in the Financial Times
Epic, instructive and engaging... Exemplary... That Sweet Enemy is the War and Peace of Franco-British relations -- Andy Martin in the Independent
Sparkling... Richly researched...This lively celebration of an old rivalry -- Robert McCrum in the Observer
Superbly researched, beautifully written... Outstanding... The many delights of this book... Scholarly and hugely readable -- Andrew Roberts in the Sunday Times
This full, rich, and utterly engrossing book... Fascinating... I would urge anyone interested in France to buy it. -- Allan Massie, Literary Review
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A magisterial study of the unique and fascinating relationship between France and Britain - and its effects on the world. As endlessly engaging and informative a work of history as A N Wilson's The Victorians or Peter Ackroyd's London.
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0434008672
- ISBN 13 9780434008674
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages816
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