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Germany's attempts to build a battleship fleet to match that of the United Kingdom, the dominant naval power on the 19th-century and an island country that depended on seaborne trade for survival, is often listed as a major reason for the enmity between those two countries that led to the outbreak of war in 1914. Indeed, German leaders had expressed a desire for a navy in proportion to their military and economic strength that could free their overseas trade and colonial empire from dependence on Britain's good will, but such a fleet would inevitably threaten Britain's own trade and empire.Despite this backdrop of large standing navies, naval warfare in the First World War was mainly charact...
This is the story of a Norfolk woman,Hilda Hobart - now in her 93rd year. She tells of an age when poverty was a shared experience and community was as important as family. Born in 1914, she also tells of an age shrouded in the secrecy of woman who were forced to give birth in the workhouse, having fallen into disgrace by producing an illegitimate child.This book is the result of many conversations with Daisy Hobart, with the specific aim of producing a book to record her memories of childhood in Horsham St Faiths. The words are her own, with some additional, agreed, editing and census research.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
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