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Austerity Britain 1945-1951 (Tales of a New Jerusalem 1) |  | Author: David Kynaston
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 499441
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 704
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.9
ISBN: 0747599238
EAN: 9780747599234
ASIN: 0747599238
Publication Date: October 6, 2008
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Product Description
For the first time, the Sunday Times bestseller Austerity Britain is available in one complete paperback volume. Coursing through Austerity Britain is an astonishing variety of voices - vivid, unselfconscious, and unaware of what the future holds. A Chingford housewife endures the tribulations of rationing; a retired schoolteacher observes during a royal visit how well-fed the Queen looks; a pernickety civil servant in Bristol is oblivious to anyone's troubles but his own. An array of working-class witnesses describe how life in post-war Britain is, with little regard for liberal niceties or the feelings of their 'betters'. Many of these voices will stay with the reader in future volumes, jostling alongside well-known figures like John Arlott (here making his first radio broadcast, still in police uniform), Glenda Jackson (taking the 11+) and Doris Lessing, newly arrived from Africa, struck by the levelling poverty of postwar Britain. David Kynaston weaves a sophisticated narrative of how the victorious 1945 Labour government shaped the political, economic and social landscape for the next three decades.Deeply researched, often amusing and always intensely entertaining and readable, the first volume of David Kynaston's ambitious history offers an entirely fresh perspective on Britain during those six momentous years.
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