![]() ![]() Brits and Germans had fought together at Waterloo and had influenced profoundly each other’s thought and art. It was a prescient vision of two nations soon to fight the First World War but it went against the spirit of the previous century. The plucky Caruthers foiled the plot and returned to his sailing holiday.This is not history but fiction, an immensely popular book called ‘The Riddle of the Sands’ by Erskine Childers. The cunning plan was to invade the British Isles from the Frisian Islands using special barges. ![]() In 1903 an Englishman called Charles Caruthers went sailing in the North Sea and stumbled upon a German military plot. ![]() Melvyn Bragg and guests discusses the prescient thriller ‘The Riddle of the Sands’ about the decline Anglo-German relations before the First World War. ![]()
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