Britain Between The Wars: 1918-1940
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Few periods of British history are as turbulent and transformative as the interwar years, and Charles Loch Mowat's Britain Between the Wars: 1918–1940 stands as one of the most authoritative accounts of that era. The work chronicles the social, political, and economic upheaval that reshaped Britain in the two decades separating the Armistice of 1918 from the outbreak of the Second World War — a period marked by the General Strike, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism in Europe, and the slow collapse of Liberal England. Mowat writes with the precision of a scholar and the narrative fluency of a seasoned historian, weaving together political biography, economic analysis, and social history into a seamless and compelling account. His treatment of figures such as Lloyd George, Baldwin, and Chamberlain illuminates the fault lines of British governance and the failures of appeasement with unflinching clarity. A benchmark work of twentieth-century British historiography, Britain Between the Wars remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the forces that shaped modern Britain — and left it standing, barely, on the precipice of another catastrophic conflict.
Author: Charles Loch Mowat
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Methuen & Co Ltd
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Few periods of British history are as turbulent and transformative as the interwar years, and Charles Loch Mowat's Britain Between the Wars: 1918–1940 stands as one of the most authoritative accounts of that era. The work chronicles the social, political, and economic upheaval that reshaped Britain in the two decades separating the Armistice of 1918 from the outbreak of the Second World War — a period marked by the General Strike, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism in Europe, and the slow collapse of Liberal England. Mowat writes with the precision of a scholar and the narrative fluency of a seasoned historian, weaving together political biography, economic analysis, and social history into a seamless and compelling account. His treatment of figures such as Lloyd George, Baldwin, and Chamberlain illuminates the fault lines of British governance and the failures of appeasement with unflinching clarity. A benchmark work of twentieth-century British historiography, Britain Between the Wars remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the forces that shaped modern Britain — and left it standing, barely, on the precipice of another catastrophic conflict.