That Sweet Enemy by Robert Tombs

That Sweet Enemy by Robert Tombs

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.

Robert Tombs is a notable specialist of Anglo-French relations and a professor of history at the University of Cambridge. That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present, which he coauthored with his wife, Isabelle Tombs, is the first comprehensive study of the French-British relationship over the last three centuries.

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ISBN 13	9781400032396
ISBN 10	1400032393
Title	That Sweet Enemy
Author	Robert Tombs
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2008-01-08
Number of pages	816
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