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Hindsight is not always a fine thing – especially when it comes to wars.
Widely-held opinion, aided and abetted by fictions like Julian Fellowes’s Gosford Park and Kasuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, still caricatures the coalition of businessmen and aristocrats that comprised the Anglo-German Fellowship (1935-39) in the run up to the Second World War as a pro-Nazi front.
Charles Spicer’s fascinating debut history – – paints a very different picture.