English History 1914-1945
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few historians have tackled the turbulent first half of the twentieth century with the verve and authority of A.J.P. Taylor, and English History 1914-1945 stands as his masterwork — a sweeping, brilliantly argued chronicle of Britain's most transformative decades. From the catastrophic trenches of the First World War through the desperate social upheaval of the interwar years and into the fires of the Second World War, Taylor maps the seismic political, economic, and cultural forces that reshaped an entire nation and its people. Taylor writes with a combative wit and an unflinching willingness to challenge received wisdom, dismantling comfortable myths about empire, class, and national character with surgical precision. Originally published as the final volume of the Oxford History of England, the work stands as both a rigorous work of scholarship and a compulsively readable narrative — one that leaves the reader questioning whether Britain's defining triumphs and tragedies were the result of grand design, or simply the improvised responses of a nation perpetually surprised by its own history.
Author: A.J.P. Taylor
Format: Paperback
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few historians have tackled the turbulent first half of the twentieth century with the verve and authority of A.J.P. Taylor, and English History 1914-1945 stands as his masterwork — a sweeping, brilliantly argued chronicle of Britain's most transformative decades. From the catastrophic trenches of the First World War through the desperate social upheaval of the interwar years and into the fires of the Second World War, Taylor maps the seismic political, economic, and cultural forces that reshaped an entire nation and its people. Taylor writes with a combative wit and an unflinching willingness to challenge received wisdom, dismantling comfortable myths about empire, class, and national character with surgical precision. Originally published as the final volume of the Oxford History of England, the work stands as both a rigorous work of scholarship and a compulsively readable narrative — one that leaves the reader questioning whether Britain's defining triumphs and tragedies were the result of grand design, or simply the improvised responses of a nation perpetually surprised by its own history.