Kings Grew Pale
Neal Ascherson: Rethinking 1848, 1 June 2023
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World, 1848-49
by Christopher Clark.
Allen Lane, 873 pp., £35, April,978 0 241 34766 9 Show More
by Christopher Clark.
Allen Lane, 873 pp., £35, April,
“... trotz alledem/Dass rings der Mensch die Bruderhand/dem Menschen reicht trotz alledem.’ It’s Robert Burns. ‘It’s coming yet, for a’ that,/That Man to Man the warld o’er/Shall brothers be for a’ that.’ The poet who translated it, Ferdinand Freiligrath, was soon driven out of Germany into exile. He was one of countless thousands across Europe ... ”