Many of the books used are mentioned in the reference notes. Readers will not need their attention drawn to the works of Sir Martin Gilbert, Professor John Röhl (whose own English and German background and work exemplifies the subject of this book), the late Lord Bulloch and Sir Ian Kershaw. Their works have been of inestimable value when writing this book, as have those of the matchless Barbara Tuchmann.
Those listed here have each contributed something, and not always because I agreed with their author, to this book. This list makes no attempt to be comprehensive, only to act as a signboard.
Walter Abish, Wie Deutsch ist Es (1979)
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1991)
Eric Ashby and Mary Anderson, Portrait of R. B. S. Haldane at Work on Education (1974)
Nicholson Baker, Human Smoke (2008)
William Beckford, Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents (1783)
James Boswell, The Journal of his German and Swiss Travels (1764), ed. Marlies K. Danziger (Yale, 2008)
Nicholas Boyle, German Literature: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2008)
and the first two volumes of Goethe, The Poet and the Age, extending, so far, until 1803 (OUP, 1991 and 2000)
Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood Around 1900 (2006)
Inka Bertz, Familienbilder (2004)
Tim Blanning, The Romantic Age (2010)
A. S. Byatt, The Children’s Book (2009)
Miranda Carter, The Three Emperors (2009)
Justin Cartwright, The Song Before It Is Sung (2005)
John Charmley, Chamberlain and the Lost Peace (1989)
Rupert Christiansen, The Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2001)
Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers (2010)
Peter Conradi, Ernst Hanfstaengl: Hitler’s Piano Player (2006)
Gordon Craig, The Germans (1991)
Otto Dietrich, The Hitler I Knew (1957)
Johann Peter Eckermann, Conversations of Goethe (1829; 1970)
Hermann Eich, The Unloved Germans (1963, translated 1965)
Joachim Fest, Hitler (1974)
Erica Fischer and Simone Ladwig-Winters, Die Wertheims: Geschichte einer Familie (2008)
David Fromkin, Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? (2005)
Peter Gay, Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1998)
Ronald Harwood, An English Tragedy (script, 2008)
Deborah Hertz, Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin (Yale, 1988)
John Heygate, Talking Picture (1934)
Oliver Hilmes, Cosima Wagner, the Lady of Bayreuth (2010)
Richard Davenport-Hines, Auden (1995)
Michael Holroyd, A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families (2008)
Paul Kennedy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism 1860–1914 (2nd ed., 1988)
Harry Kessler, The Diaries of a Cosmopolitan, 1918–1937, ed. Charles Kessler (1971). This is still handy, despite a more extensive publication of the diaries still in the making.
Ivone Kirkpatrick, The Inner Circle (1959)
Emil Ludwig, The Germans: Double Portrait of a Nation (1940)
Giles McDonagh, Adam von Trott: The Good German (1995)
Margaret Macmillan, Peacemakers: Six Months that Changed the World (2001)
Peter Mandler, The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair (2006)
Robert K. Massie, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War (1991)
Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe (2008)
Peter Parker, Isherwood: A Life Revealed (2004)
Roy Pascal, Shakespeare in Germany, 1740–1815 (1976)
Jonathan Petropoulos, Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (2006)
Gitta Sereny, The German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections (2000)
Anne Dzamba Sessa, Richard Wagner and the English (1979)
George Bernard Shaw, How to Become a Musical Critic, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1960)
Ethel Smyth, Abridged Memoirs (1987)
The Collected Letters of Charles Sorley, ed. Jean Moorcroft Wilson (1990)
Reinhard Spitzy, How We Squandered the Reich (1986)
Jonathan Steinberg, Bismarck (2011)
Zara Steiner, The Foreign Office and Foreign Office Policy 1898–1914 (US edition, 1986)
Gerwin Strobl, The Germanic Isle: Nazi Perceptions of Britain (2000)
John Sutherland, Stephen Spender (2004)
Rodney Symington, The Nazi Appropriation of Shakespeare: Cultural Politics in the Third Reich (Edwin Mellen Press, 2005)
Eva Tucker, Berlin Mosaic (2005); Becoming English (2009)
Petra Utta-Rau, English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890–1950 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009)
Peter Watson, The German Genius (2010)
Harry F. Young, Prince Lichnowsky and the Great War (University of Georgia Press, 1977)