England: A New Era. History of the Kingdom in the 20th–21st Centuries
19.99 €
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England: A New Era. History of the Kingdom in the 20th–21st Centuries
19.99 €
England is a country that looks both to the past and to the future. Throughout its history, it has looked back to the times when “old gentlemen spent their days sitting on the side of a wheelbarrow with a pipe in their mouth, listening to the clang of hammers on anvils coming from the village smithy.” This was the country before strikes and demonstrations, gas and electricity, two world wars and decolonisation. The 20th century was an era of great trials and great victories for England, as well as a time of rapid changes that affected all aspects of life.
The book opens with the events of the early 20th century: the end of the Boer War, the reign of Edward VII, imperial crises and the First World War. Peter Ackroyd takes the reader through the terrible years of the Second World War, which threatened the independence of the island state, the reign of George VI, the transformation of the empire into the Commonwealth of Nations and the new Elizabethan era. By the turn of the millennium, when the story reaches, Elizabeth II has had ten prime ministers during her reign, the most famous of whom were Winston Churchill, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. But the history of England does not stop.
The book opens with the events of the early 20th century: the end of the Boer War, the reign of Edward VII, imperial crises and the First World War. Peter Ackroyd takes the reader through the terrible years of the Second World War, which threatened the independence of the island state, the reign of George VI, the transformation of the empire into the Commonwealth of Nations and the new Elizabethan era. By the turn of the millennium, when the story reaches, Elizabeth II has had ten prime ministers during her reign, the most famous of whom were Winston Churchill, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. But the history of England does not stop.
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