The Morbid Age
Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939
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- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2010
Summary
‘The Morbid Age is history at its best’ - Economist
British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity. The Morbid Age opens a window on to this creative but anxious era, the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist—Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H. G. Wells, Marie Stopes, and a host of others.
Yet, as Richard Overy argues, a striking characteristic of so many of the ideas that emerged from this new age—from eugen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141003252 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141003251 |
| Author: | Richard Overy |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2010 |
| Weight: | 388g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Wonderfully compelling … never less than a delight to read … supremely well informed, thoughtful and enjoyable
Wonderfully compelling … never less than a delight to read … supremely well informed, thoughtful and enjoyable – Dominic Sandbrook * Evening Standard *
Overy is one of the great historians of the second world war – Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times *
It’s difficult to do justice to the richness of Overy’s account – Noel Malcolm * Saturday Telegraph *
It is hard to imagine anyone recording these times more exactly and more intelligently, or with greater insight and scholarship, than Overy has in this book – Simon Heffer * Telegraph *
a rewarding book, and a highly readable one – John Gross * Standpoint *
About The Author
Richard Overy
Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His books include Why the Allies Won, Russia’s War, The Battle of Britain and The Dictators, which won the Wolfson and the Hessell Tiltman Prizes for history in 2005.
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