Name: Keeping up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters
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Author: Philip Oltermann
ISBN: 9780571240197

portada Keeping up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Author

Philip Oltermann

Synopsis "Keeping up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters"

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-02-07 Pages: 304 Language: English Publisher: Faber & Faber In 1996. in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany. Philip Oltermanns parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London. A number of worrying questions arise. How would English schoolboys take to a lanky 16-year-old German How did they think and do things differently What was the secret of the famed British humour And were there values ??that English and German people sharedIn search of answers. Oltermann interweaves memoir and history. taking ten key Anglo-German encounters from the last 200 years as his starting point These include:. an encounter between Joe Strummer and the Baader Meinhof gang. Helmut Kohl trying to explain the virtues of German cuisine to a sceptical Margaret Thatcher and philosophe...