Product Description: The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was done mainly, if one is to believe US policy at the time, to liberate the people of Iraq from an oppressive dictator. However, the many protests in London, New York, and other cities imply that the policy of “making the world safe for democracy” was not shared by millions of people in many Western countries...read more

Product Description: British Envoys to Germany presents official reports sent from the British missions in Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover, Dresden, Stuttgart, Munich and Vienna. The diplomatic correspondence selected for Volume 4 provides strong evidence that the period between the Dresden Conferences of 1851 and the Austro-Prussian war of 1866 should be seen as more than just a time of transition between the revolution of 1848 and German unification...read more

Product Description: Whenever the British Press wants to attack the Royal Family, they make a jibe about their foreign roots. The Royals  as they say  are simply a posh version of German invaders. But did German relatives really influence decisions made by any British monarchs or are they just an imagined community, invented by journalists and historians? The Royal Archives at Windsor gave the authors among others John Röhl, doyen of 19th century monarchical history open access to Royal correspondences with six German houses: Hanover, Prussia, Mecklenburg, Coburg, Hesse and Battenberg...read more