Bloody Foreigners

€19.90


Shipping in 4/5 days

Product Information

ISBN9780349138800
AuthorsRobert Winder
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
FormatPaperback
Number of pages640
Weight (kg)0.460
Publishing Date30/05/2013
Price (excl. tax)€18.77
Tax€1.13
Price (incl. tax)€19.90
Availability7 units in external warehouse

Product Description

The story of the way Britain has been settled and influenced by foreign people and ideas is as old as the land itself. In this original, important and inspiring book, Robert Winder tells of the remarkable migrations that have founded and defined a nation.

''Our aristocracy was created by a Frenchman, William the Conqueror, who also created our medieval architecture, our greatest artistic glory. Our royal family is German, our language a bizarre confection of Latin, Saxon and, latterly, Indian and American. Our shops and banks were created by Jews. We did not stand alone against Hitler; the empire stood beside us. And our food is, of course, anything but British . . . Winder has a thousand stories to tell and he tells them well'' Sunday Times