Bloody Foreigners

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The story of the way Britain has been settled & influenced by foreign people & ideas is as old as the land itself. In this original, important & inspiring book, Robert Winder tells of the remarkable migrations that have founded & defined a nation. ' Our aristocracy was created by a Frenchman, William the Conqueror, who also created our medieval architecture, our greatest artistic glory. Our royal family is German, our language a bizarre confection of Latin, Saxon &, latterly, Indian & American. Our shops & banks were created by Jews. We did not stand alone against Hitler; the empire stood beside us. & our food is, of course, anything but British... Winder has a thousand stories to tell & he tells them well' Sunday Times