Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982
Autor Dominic Sandbrooken Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 sep 2020
'Magisterial ... If anyone wants to know what has been happening to Britain since the 1950s, it is difficult to imagine a more informative, or better-humoured guide ... a Thucydidean coolness, balance and wisdom that is superb.' - AN Wilson,The Times
'Who Dares Winscaptures the period with clairvoyant vividness. Compulsively readable, the book will be indispensable to anyone who wants to understand these pivotal years.' - John Gray,New Statesman
'Immaculately well-researched, breathtakingly broad and beautifully written ... Sandbrook leaves the reader impatient for the next volume.' - Simon Heffer,Daily Telegraph
The acclaimed historian of modern Britain, Dominic Sandbrook, tells the story of the early 1980s: the most dramatic, colourful and controversial years in our recent history.
Margaret Thatcher had come to power in 1979 with a daring plan to reverse Britain's decline into shabbiness and chaos. But as factories closed their doors, dole queues lengthened and the inner cities exploded in flames, would her radical medicine rescue the Sick Man of Europe - or kill it off?
Vivid, surprising and gloriously entertaining, Dominic Sandbrook's new book recreates the decisive turning point in Britain's recent story. For some people this was an age of unparalleled opportunity, the heyday of computers and credit cards, snooker, Sloane Rangers and Spandau Ballet. Yet for others it was an era of shocking bitterness, as industries collapsed, working-class communities buckled and the Labour Party tore itself apart. And when Argentine forces seized the Falkland Islands, it seemed the final humiliation for a wounded, unhappy country, its fortunes now standing on a knife-edge.
Here are the early 1980s in all their gaudy glory. This is the story of Tony Benn, Ian Botham and Princess Diana; Joy Division, Chariots of Fire, the Austin Metro and Juliet Bravo; wine bars, Cruise missiles, the ZX Spectrum and the battle for the Falklands. And towering above them all, the most divisive Prime Minister of modern times - the Iron Lady.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141975283
ISBN-10: 0141975288
Pagini: 976
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 42 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141975288
Pagini: 976
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 42 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Like
its
predecessors,Who
Dares
Winsis
a
rich
mixture
of
political
narrative
and
social
reportage.It
is
scholarly,
accessible,
well
written,
witty
and
incisive.It
fizzes
with
character
and
anecdote
...
Superb.
Magisterial ... If anyone wants to know what has been happening to Britain since the 1950s,it is difficult to imagine a more informative, or better-humoured guide... a Thucydidean coolness, balance and wisdom that is superb.
Superb ...Immaculately well-researched, breathtakingly broad and beautifully written.One defies anyone, even a specialist, not to learn something from it ... Sandbrook leaves the reader impatient for the next volume.
Painstaking, enjoyable, even-handed ... you may feel a nice balance of piquancy and poignancy in having those years brought to life by the historian's magic wand.
Brilliant ...The political manoeuvrings of 1979-82 are traced with a novelistic verve that would have done credit to House of Cards.
Dominic Sandbrook's great chronicle of Britain locates the big political narrative always in a wider social context than just by-election swings and Westminster roundabouts ... It all comes flooding back.
This is vividly panoramic history, ranging from high affairs of state to the tiniest textural details of everyday life ... His sources are joyously eclectic ...We wait impatiently for the next course of this richly satisfying historical feast.
A magnificent history ...Who Dares Winscaptures the period with clairvoyant vividness.Compulsively readable, the book will be indispensable to anyone who wants to understand these pivotal years.
Masterful, mammoth ... rich and rewarding ... One of the book's great strengths is that although we know how the story will end we are still kept in suspense - not because of doubts over the outcome, but because Sandbrook situates the reader firmly back in those crucial years ... The result is a full and rich account of the period.
Worth every penny, an enjoyable romp ... It's a great read.
A magisterial history of three momentous years ... the author succeeds triumphantly.
You don't have to have grown up with the Mini Metro, Lymeswold cheese and the Sinclair Spectrum v BBC Micro to adore this brilliant history of the Eighties. It slides compellingly from socialism to Soft Cell's Tainted Love and made me want to be 10 again, bewildered by the Falklands War on TV.
Praise for THE GREAT BRITISH DREAM FACTORY: Delightfully good ... an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture.
Not only thoroughly entertaining, but crammed with as many serious insights as a shelf-full of academic studies.
Relentlessly entertaining.
I read it in less than two days, my attention never flagging ... It is dramatic, perceptive and often extremely funny.
Terrific fun ... Sandbrook isn't like other historians ... He heads off down strange, neglected byways, teasing out unexpected connections, with the results often proving far more illuminating - and enjoyable - than conventional narratives ...I defy you not to be swept up in a narrative that's as colourful as it is dramatic.
Magisterial ... If anyone wants to know what has been happening to Britain since the 1950s,it is difficult to imagine a more informative, or better-humoured guide... a Thucydidean coolness, balance and wisdom that is superb.
Superb ...Immaculately well-researched, breathtakingly broad and beautifully written.One defies anyone, even a specialist, not to learn something from it ... Sandbrook leaves the reader impatient for the next volume.
Painstaking, enjoyable, even-handed ... you may feel a nice balance of piquancy and poignancy in having those years brought to life by the historian's magic wand.
Brilliant ...The political manoeuvrings of 1979-82 are traced with a novelistic verve that would have done credit to House of Cards.
Dominic Sandbrook's great chronicle of Britain locates the big political narrative always in a wider social context than just by-election swings and Westminster roundabouts ... It all comes flooding back.
This is vividly panoramic history, ranging from high affairs of state to the tiniest textural details of everyday life ... His sources are joyously eclectic ...We wait impatiently for the next course of this richly satisfying historical feast.
A magnificent history ...Who Dares Winscaptures the period with clairvoyant vividness.Compulsively readable, the book will be indispensable to anyone who wants to understand these pivotal years.
Masterful, mammoth ... rich and rewarding ... One of the book's great strengths is that although we know how the story will end we are still kept in suspense - not because of doubts over the outcome, but because Sandbrook situates the reader firmly back in those crucial years ... The result is a full and rich account of the period.
Worth every penny, an enjoyable romp ... It's a great read.
A magisterial history of three momentous years ... the author succeeds triumphantly.
You don't have to have grown up with the Mini Metro, Lymeswold cheese and the Sinclair Spectrum v BBC Micro to adore this brilliant history of the Eighties. It slides compellingly from socialism to Soft Cell's Tainted Love and made me want to be 10 again, bewildered by the Falklands War on TV.
Praise for THE GREAT BRITISH DREAM FACTORY: Delightfully good ... an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture.
Not only thoroughly entertaining, but crammed with as many serious insights as a shelf-full of academic studies.
Relentlessly entertaining.
I read it in less than two days, my attention never flagging ... It is dramatic, perceptive and often extremely funny.
Terrific fun ... Sandbrook isn't like other historians ... He heads off down strange, neglected byways, teasing out unexpected connections, with the results often proving far more illuminating - and enjoyable - than conventional narratives ...I defy you not to be swept up in a narrative that's as colourful as it is dramatic.