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Title: Keeping Up With the Germans
Condition: New
EAN: 9780571240197
ISBN: 9780571240197
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 07/02/2013
Item Height: 200mm
Item Length: 125mm
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 235g
Author: Philip Oltermann
Language: English
Subtitle: A History of Anglo-German Encounters
ISBN-10: 0571240194
Description:

In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann's parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London.

Inspired by his own experience of both countries, Philip Oltermann looks at eight historical encounters between English and German people from the last two hundred years: Helmut Kohl tries to explain German cuisine to the Iron Lady, the Mini plays catch-up with the Volkswagen Beetle, and Joe Strummer has an unlikely brush with the Baader-Meinhof gang.

Keeping Up with the Germans is a witty look at the lighter-side of Anglo-German relations over the last 100 years.


Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: History
Release Year: 2013

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