The author charts the growth of the German community in Britain and dramatically details the story of its destruction under the intolerance which gripped the country during World War I.
Panikos Panayi Senior Lecturer in History,De Montfort University, Leicester
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'... will remain a useful reference work on the subject for some time to come.'The Slavonic Review'... will serve as the authoritative work on the subject for decades to come.'Choice'... a sound piece of historical research which fills a definite gap in our understanding of the British home front during the Great War, not to mention the position of aliens within British society.'German History
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Victorian and Edwardian background; measures against alien enemies; internment and repatriation; the experience of internment; measures against German business interests; anti-German sentiment: spy-fever, anti-alienism and the hidden hand; anti-German manifestations - witchhunts, boycotts, and movements; anti-German riots; support for alien enemies.
