Blakeway, D: The Last Dance

'An absorbing presentation...colourful and cinematic' -- Piers Brendon, Sunday Times 'Vivid... illuminating... four stars' -- Mail on Sunday 'Stimulating and highly readable... absorbing' -- Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New Statesman 'Witty... there are many good stories... a keen eye for telling detail... a lively book' -- Michael Burleigh, Spectator "Absorbing... the divided society of time is lucidly portrayed... colourful and cinematic. It vividly recapulates key themes played out during the 1930s" -- Sunday Times 'Denys Blakeway has triumphed with this book, writing with humour and sophistication about all forms of British life' -- Lady 'A surprisingly vivid and enjoyable study of what turns out to be a semina year - 1936 ... Blakeway brings a TV producer's eye to the sweep of history and enlives it with a plethora of fresh insights and anecdotes' -- Anthony Horowitz, Sun Tel Christmas books 'Politicians, poets and pacifist clerics share a brilliant, crowded canvas, with the sinister figure of Hitler looming in the background. Blakeway hardly misses a trick' -- Sunday Telegraph

Denys Blakeway is an award-winning independent producer, specialising in contemporary history. He has made numerous films about the 1930s including 'God Bless You Mr Chamberlain', 'The Road to War' and 'Abdication, A Very British Coup'.