Peace and War: Britain in 1914 by Nigel Jones
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Overview: 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 that was expressed in a rash of ‘invasion scare’ literature.
Then when shots rang out in Sarajevo 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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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