The deep roots of Anglo-German relations

Britain and Germany have shared royal dynasties, forged pragmatic alliances, exchanged huge flows of capital and fought terrible wars against each other. In his new book, ‘Great Powers: A History of Britain and Germany’, Jan Rüger documents that symbiotic relationship’s twists and turns over the past 300 years.

Image: An anti-German British propaganda poster from the First World War. Credit: Wikimedia Commons