This Sceptred Isle Vol 2: The Twentieth Century |
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Christopher Lee
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Pages: 500 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 0563384727
Pub: BBC Books
Pub date: 1999-09-30
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 452552
Editorial Review:
To form a view of where Britain is at today, and indeed when it has been here before, take a look at This Sceptred Isle--Twentieth Century, sequel to the award-winning earlier text This Sceptred Isle,covering the Romans to Queen Victoria. The writer is a specialist in contemporary and military history who has aimed this book specifically at the general reader. The style is almost conversational and the comment circumspect, taking care to view actions in the context of their times. Organised chronologically, chapters on each decade are sub-divided into a section for each year, so that the book may be used as a reference tool and need not necessarily be read cover to cover--beneficial in what is a long text not broken by illustrations.
The coverage includes major world events and extends to sport, the arts and medicine. Also recorded are diverting details of everyday life, such as the appearance of the board game Monopoly and the first advertisement on British television. Containing more fact than philosophy, presenting opinions without being opinionated and taking the spin out of politics, Twentieth Century reports 100 years of unrest and fast-paced change and yet clearly expresses that our problems are not new and that in some significant ways the 20th century ends as it began. --Karen Tiley
Reader Reviews:
Approachable adaptation of excellent radio serial (11/11 people found this helpful)
Listeners to Radio 4 will hardly need introducing to this book, which outlines the principal events of UK history in the 20th Century in a highly readable way. Originally broadcast during 1999, this is a worthy sequel to the original epic serial which covered the period from the Romans to Victoria.
This is a book written for a general audience, and readers should not expect dazzling new insights, or learned discussion of great events. However, as a (fairly conventional) overview of the last 100 years it will be enjoyed by many.
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