Screen LibraryAusterity Britain, 1945-51
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| Published: |
Walker & Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Tales of a new Jerusalem ; 1-2 |
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| Item Description: |
Smoke in the valley. World to build. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 692 p., [32] p. of plates: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780802716934 (hc) 0802716938 (hc) |
| Index Number: | K561 |
| CLC: | K561.5 |
| Call Number: | K561.5/K995 |
| Contents: |
"Austerity Britain comprises A world to build and Smoke in the valley, the first two books of Tales of a New Jerusalem, a projected sequence about Britain between 1945 and 1979"--Pref. "First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury in 2007"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. A world to build -- Smoke in the valley. "As much as any country, England bore the brunt of Germany's aggression in World War II and was ravaged in many ways at the war's end. In Austerity Britain, celebrated historian David Kynaston has written a hugely ambitious and compellingly readable account of the following six years, during which the country indomitably rebuilt itself." "Kynaston's great genius is to chronicle England's experience from bottom to top: coursing through the book, therefore, is an astonishing variety of ordinary contemporary voices... |