A highly readable portrait of Britain in the inter war years. The politics - Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay Macdonald, Oswald Moseley, General Strike, and Ireland included - are covered but it is the social and cultural developments that are the main appeal. An age starting with Marie Lloyd and ending with Henry Hall and Tommy Handley and taking in characters like George Formby and the extraordinary John Reith of the BBC cannot fail to entertain.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 120 Spring 2026 ) |
