David Kynaston, Author . Walker $45 (692p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1693-4
Kynaston (author of the four-volume The City of London
) has produced an extraordinary panorama of Britain as it emerged from the tumult of war with a broken empire, a bankrupt economy and an ostensibly socialist government. Britain between 1945 and
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David Kynaston, Author . Walker $45 (776p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1797-9
Following U.K. bestseller Austerity Britain 1945–1951
, this is the second title in historian Kynaston’s series on postwar Britain. It was an eventful time. A BBC survey conducted after King George VI’s death in 1952 found the...
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David Kynaston. Bloomsbury, $52 (912p) ISBN 978-1-62040-809-4
Kynaston continues his history of postwar Britain (after Austerity Britain: 1945–1951 and Family Britain: 1951–1957) in this rich tapestry of political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments. He profiles a Tory-ruled, post-Suez, largely...
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