That Sweet Enemy

Britain and France: The History of a Love-Hate Relationship

By: Robert Tombs, Isabelle Tombs

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Paperback | 8 January 2008

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That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo to Chirac's slandering of British cooking, the authors chart this cross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled breadth of cultural, economic, and political influence it has wrought on both sides, illuminating the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of this relationship-rivalry, enmity, and misapprehension mixed with envy, admiration, and genuine affection-and the myriad ways it has shaped the modern world.

Written with wit and elegance, and illustrated with delightful images and cartoons from both sides of the Channel, That Sweet Enemy is a unique and immensely enjoyable history, destined to become a classic.

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"Magnificent. . . . An important interpretation of one of Europe's defining relationships and a rollicking, eventful cultural tour." --The Washington Post Book World "A remarkably inventive, stylish, and audacious work. . . . One of the most engaging and invigorating works of international history I've read in years." --Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic Monthly"Grand and luminously detailed." --The New York Review of Books"It took two people, one English and the other French, to write a book as compendious and unbiased as [That Sweet Enemy]. And it didn't hurt that each seems to have an excellent sense of humor."--Los Angeles Times

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