Never Again
Britain 1945-1951
$30.99
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
6 August 2020
Summary
Winner of the NCR Award for Non-Fiction 1993 and the Duff Cooper Prize 1993
The first volume of Hennessy’s postwar history of Britain concerns an age dominated by the shadow of war. With the beginnings of the Cold War, the foundations of the new Europe and the granting of independence of former colonies, Britain was forced to negotiate a new place in the world. It was also a time of rationing and of rebuilding, marked by the founding of the NHS and the welfare state. This comprehensiv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141016023 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141016027 |
| Author: | Peter Hennessy |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 6 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 404g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 25mm |
About The Author
Peter Hennessy
Peter Hennessy is one of Britain’s most celebrated historians, ‘who has himself become something of a national institution’ (Ben Pimlott). He is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary University of London. His previous books include this book’s two immediate predecessors, Never Again- Britain 1945-1951 (1992, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and the NCR Prize for Non-fiction) and Having it so Good- Britain in the Fifties (2006, winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing). His other books include Cabinet (1986), Whitehall (1989), The Prime Minister- The Office and Its Holders Since 1945 (2000), The Secret State- Preparing for the Worst (2002, 2010) and, co-authored with James Jinks, The Silent Deep- The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945 (2015, winner of the Duke of Westminster’s Award for Military Literature and the Mountbatten Maritime Award). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003 and created an independent crossbench life peer as Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield in 2010.
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