Never Again: Britain 1945-1951
Autor Peter Hennessyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 oct 2006
Winner of the NCR Award for Non-Fiction
From the high politics of Court and Cabinet room to the kitchen or the queue, Peter Hennessy'sNever Again: Britain 1945-51, the first part of his Post-War Trilogy, recreates life in early post-war Britain.
'Hennessy conjures up the Attlee years more vividly than any previous writer' Ben Pimlott,Guardian
At the end of the Second World War Britain was in flux. It was an age of rationing and rebuilding; when hope for a better future contrasted with the horror of war.
Fresh ideals emerged during the common experience of the conflict and the new, widespread belief that everyone should be treated equally led to the creation of the 'welfare state' and the NHS, despite tough economic circumstances. Internationally, Britain was finding a place in a world increasingly overshadowed by Cold War with the Soviet Union.
'A joy to read'Sunday Times
'Hennessy is never for a moment dull' Philip Ziegler,Daily Telegraph
'Hennessy is the antithesis of the dry-as-dust academic historian. He laughs a great deal, and punctuates his writing with cheery and illuminating anecdotes' Ian Aitken,Guardian
'A sympathetic, highly readable, meticulously researched account of the Cabinet room politics and popular habits of life and recreation during the high noon of Labourism' Roy Jenkins,Observer
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141016023
ISBN-10: 0141016027
Pagini: 592
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 1 x 1 x 1 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141016027
Pagini: 592
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 1 x 1 x 1 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Peter
Hennessyis
one
of
Britain's
most
celebrated
historians,
'who
has
himself
become
something
of
a
national
institution'
(Ben
Pimlott).
He
is
Attlee
Professor
of
Contemporary
British
History
at
Queen
Mary
University
of
London.
His
previous
books
include
this
book's
two
immediate
predecessors,Never
Again:
Britain
1945-1951(1992,
winner
of
the
Duff
Cooper
Prize
and
the
NCR
Prize
for
Non-fiction)
andHaving
it
so
Good:
Britain
in
the
Fifties(2006,
winner
of
the
Orwell
Prize
for
Political
Writing).
His
other
books
includeCabinet(1986),Whitehall(1989),The
Prime
Minister:
The
Office
and
Its
Holders
Since
1945(2000),The
Secret
State:
Preparing
for
the
Worst(2002,
2010)
and,
co-authored
with
James
Jinks,The
Silent
Deep:
The
Royal
Navy
Submarine
Service
Since
1945(2015,
winner
of
the
Duke
of
Westminster's
Award
for
Military
Literature
and
the
Mountbatten
Maritime
Award).
He
was
elected
a
Fellow
of
the
British
Academy
in
2003
and
created
an
independent
crossbench
life
peer
as
Lord
Hennessy
of
Nympsfield
in
2010.