Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars - Couverture rigide

Heffer, Simon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 152915264X ISBN 13 : 9781529152647

Editeur : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2023

Synopsis

Sing As We Go is an astonishingly ambitious overview of the political, social and cultural history of the country from 1919 to 1939.

It explores and explains the politics of the period, and puts such moments of national turmoil as the General Strike of 1926 and the Abdication Crisis of 1936 under the microscope. It offers pen portraits of the era's most significant figures. It traces the changing face of Britain as cars made their first mass appearance, the suburbs sprawled, and radio and cinema became the means of mass entertainment. And it probes the deep divisions that split the nation: between the haves and have-nots, between warring ideological factions, and between those who promoted accommodation with fascism in Europe and those who bitterly opposed it.
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Praise for the series:

'Scholarly, objective and extremely well written. A masterclass . . . Heffer's eye for the telling detail is evident on almost every page.' Andrew Roberts, 5*, Telegraph

'Gloriously rich and spirited . . . colourful, character driven history.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

'Enlightening . . . Robust opinion, an eye for telling detail and a gift for bringing historical figures alive.'
History Books of the Year, Daily Mail

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Simon Heffer was born in 1960. He read English at Cambridge and took a PhD in modern history at that university. His previous books include: Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle, Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell, Power and Place: The Political Consequences of King Edward VII, Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England, Vaughan Williams, Strictly English, A Short History of Power, Simply English and High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain. In a thirty-year career in Fleet Street, he has held senior editorial positions on The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, and is now a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hutchinson Heinemann
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 152915264X
• ISBN 13: 9781529152647
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 960
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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