Keeping Up With The Germans Av Philip Oltermann

<p>In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, Philip Oltermann's parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London.<br><br>Inspired by his own experience of both countries, Philip Oltermann looks at eight historical encounters between English and German people from the last two hundred years: Helmut Kohl tries to explain German cuisine to the Iron Lady, the Mini plays catch-up with the Volkswagen Beetle, and Joe Strummer has an unlikely brush with the Baader-Meinhof gang.<br><br><i>Keeping Up with the Germans </i>is a witty look at the lighter-side of Anglo-German relations over the last 100 years.</p>