Few people then - or perhaps even now - realised just what a watershed 1936 would be. In a closely-written analysis, month by month, sometimes almost day to day, the author shows how the old era became sharply divided from the new. Building around a collection of remarkable personalities, through diaries and memoirs of every social class, a compelling and vivid picture emerges of a turning point in British history in which nothing would ever be the same again.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 69 Summer 2013 ) |
