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Seasons in the Sun: the Battle for Britain, 1974-1979

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Seasons in the Sun: the Battle for Britain, 1974-1979

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ISBN: 9780141032160
Title: Seasons in the Sun: the Battle for Britain, 1974-1979
Author: SANDBROOK DOMINIC

The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life. They saw inflation, riots, the peak of trade union power - and also the birth of home computers, the rise of the ready meal and the triumph of a Grantham grocer's daughter who would change everything. Dominic Sandbrook recreates this extraordinary period in all its chaos and contradiction, revealing it as a turning point in our recent history, where, in everything from families and schools to punk and Doctor Who, the future of the nation was being decided.'Magnificent& . . .& If you lived through the late Seventies - or, for that matter, even if you didn't - don't miss this book.'& Mail on Sunday& 'Entertaining, engaging, masterful, a joy . . . as a storyteller, Sandbrook is superb.'& Sunday Telegraph& & 'A brilliant historian.' A. N. Wilson, Spectator'Sandbrook has rummaged deep into the cultural life of the era to remind us how rich it was, from Bowie to Dennis Potter, Martin Amis to William Golding.'& The Times& & 'While Sandbrook punctures some of our favourite myths& . . . & what makes this book such a pleasure is the sheer, unashamed nostalgia it evokes.'& Daily Telegraph'Compulsively readable . . . Sandbrook is right to argue that the 1970s was the moment when our century arrived.'& Guardian

Format: Paperback
Price: $56.00

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Weight 708 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 43 mm