About the Book: Great Powers
In September 1714, the elector of Hanover crossed the North Sea to be crowned
king of Great Britain. His reign as George I marked the beginning of a close yet
fraught relationship that would shape the destinies of both Britain and Germany,
with profound consequences for Europe and the modern world order.
Great Powers tells the story of this relationship from ancestral alliance to
bitter enmity and, eventually, reconciliation. It reveals the many links that
united Britons and Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the
unprecedented violence they inflicted on each other in the twentieth, and how
they