CONTENTS

PART ONE
FROM A PROTESTANT ALLIANCE TO THE ENDING OF AN EMPIRE (1613–1919)

1	Noble Endeavours
2	Exiles and Travellers (1613–1782)
3	Romantic Exchanges (1790–1830)
4	Count Smorltork’s Progress (1826–32)
5	The Age of Virtue (1830–60)
6	Elizabeth Fry, Florence Nightingale and Charles de Bunsen’s German Hospital (1840–52)
7	Germanising England: The Albert Effect (1840–61)
8	Travels in a Foreign Land (1840–60)
9	The Eagle and the Lion (1858–88)
10	Lululaund and Other Adventures (1880–1910)
11	The Age of Apprehension (1888–1901)
12	The Friendship Under Strain (1902–10)
13	The Rift Widens (1906–14)
14	Debacle (1913–14)
15	Victims of Circumstance: England in Germany (1914–18)
16	Victims of Circumstance: Germany in England (1914–18)
17	Pay-Back (1918–19)

PART TWO
FROM VERSAILLES TO THE VERGE OF WAR (1919–40)

18	Love Among the Ruins (1919–23)
19	Reconnecting (1924–30)
20	Falling in Love Again: Tom Mitford (1909–45)
21	Entering the Abyss (1928–34)
22	Nikolaus Pevsner: The Odd One Out (1929–33)
23	The Young Ambassadors (1930–39)
24	And Then, There Was Romance (1930–39)

PART THREE
MOVING BEYOND REPAIR

25	Exodus (1933–8)
26	Noble Endeavours (1933–40)
27	Resisters and Informers (1933–40)
28	Fate and Circumstance (1939–45)
29	Only Connect
	Afterword
	Notes
	Select Bibliography
	Acknowledgements
	Picture Acknowledgements