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- 题名/责任者:
- Heligoland : Britain, Germany, and the struggle for the North Sea / Jan Ru?ger.
- 版本说明:
- First edition.
- 出版发行项:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- ISBN:
- 9780199672462
- ISBN:
- 0199672466
- 载体形态项:
- ix, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- 个人责任者:
- Ru?ger, Jan, author.
- 论题主题:
- International relations.
- 地理名称主题:
- Helgoland (Germany)-History.
- 地理名称主题:
- Germany-Relations-Great Britain.
- 地理名称主题:
- Great Britain-Relations-Germany.
- 地理名称主题:
- Germany.
- 地理名称主题:
- Germany-Helgoland.
- 地理名称主题:
- Great Britain.
- 中图法分类号:
- K516.9
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-352) and index.
- 摘要附注:
- On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, thirty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. A long tradition of rivalry was to come to an end here, in the ruins of Hitler's island fortress. Pressed as to why it was not prepared to give Heligoland back, the British government declared that the island represented everything that was wrong with the Germans: 'If any tradition was worth breaking, and if any sentiment was worth changing, then the German sentiment about Heligoland was such a one'. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, Jan Ruger explores how Britain and Germany have collided and collaborated in this North Sea enclave. For much of the nineteenth century, this was Britain's smallest colony, an inconvenient and notoriously discontented outpost at the edge of Europe. Situated at the fault line between imperial and national histories, the island became a metaphor for Anglo-German rivalry once Germany acquired it in 1890.Turned into a naval stronghold under the Kaiser and again under Hitler, it was fought over in both world wars. Heavy bombardment by the Allies reduced it to ruins, until the Royal Navy re-took it in May 1945. Returned to West Germany in 1952, it became a showpiece of reconciliation, but one that continues to bear the scars of the twentieth century. Tracing this rich history of contact and conflict from the Napoleonic Wars to the Cold War, Heligoland brings to life a fascinating microcosm of the Anglo-German relationship. For generations this cliff-bound island expressed a German will to bully and battle Britain; and it mirrored a British determination to prevent Germany from establishing hegemony on the Continent. Caught in between were the Heligolanders and those involved with them: spies and smugglers, poets and painters, sailors and soldiers. Heligoland is the compelling story of a relationship which has defined modern Europe.
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