Peace and War: Britain in 1914
Author(s): Nigel Jones
1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue; and suspicions of Germany's ambitions bred a paranoia expressed in a rash of 'invasion scare' literature. Then when shots rang out in Sara-jevo on 28 June, they set in train a tumble of diplomatic dominos that led to Britain declaring war on Germany. Nigel Jones depicts every facet of a year that changed Britain for ever. From gun-running in Ulster to an attack by suffragettes on a Velasquez painting in the National Gallery; from the launch of HMHS Britannic to cricketer J.T. Hearne's 3000th first-class wicket; from the opening of London's first nightclub to the embarking for Belgium of the BEF, he traces the events of a momentous year from its benign domestic beginnings to its descent into the nightmare of European war.
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Nigel Jones is an author, a former editor at History Today and BBC history magazines, and has been a TV and radio broadcaster.
General Fields
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- : Head of Zeus
- : Head of Zeus
- : 31 December 2013
- : 246mm X 189mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 February 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Nigel Jones
- : Hardback
- : 314
- : 224
- : Colour Illus