Recensione:
For any student of Britain in the modern era this is, quite simply, a must-have book. (British Scholar website)
This is an outstanding and immenley readable book, light in touch, wide in breadth and with a clear case. (Robert Giddings, Tribune)
Addison's book is clear enough for a general reader, but also has enough meat for an academic audience. (Joe Moran, History Today)
For someone new to postwar history, this offers one of the best single-volume accounts: clear, authoritative and wide-ranging. (Joe Moran, History Today)
A balanced, authoritative, deeply civilised survey. (David Kynaston, Financial Times)
Few of the pages...go by without an eye-opening factoid to enlighten or a hitherto unheard anecdote to amuse. (Christopher Bray, The Independent on Sunday)
L'autore:
Paul Addison taught history at the University of Edinburgh from 1967 to 1996 and was Director of the Centre for Second World War Studies (now the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars) at Edinburgh from 1996 to 2005. Among his other publications are The Road to 1945: British Politics and the Second World War (1975), Now The War Is Over: A Social History of Britain from 1945 to 1951 (1985), Churchill: The Unexpected Hero (2003) and A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939-2000 (2005), which he edited with Harriet Jones. A former Visiting Fellow of All Souls, he is currently an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars.
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