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Seasons In The Sun: The Battle For Britain, 1974-1979 (2012)

by Dominic Sandbrook(Favorite Author)

4.36 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1846140323 (ISBN13: 9781846140327)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Allen Lane

series

History of Modern Britain

review 1: At over 800 pages it might seem that the reader would have to invest a fair amount of effort to get through this. However, it reads very well and stamina is not an issue. Sambrook strengths are the political history, the last days of Wilson, the IMF crisis, the winter of discontent and the 1979 election are superbly done. Sambrook is not so sure footed when it come to mixing in popular culture - Alwyn Turner's your man for that. Sambrook is also reasonably narrow, he avoids the eclectic collection of topics found in Douglas Kynaston's histories. Nevertheless, it's a first class popular history.
review 2: Superb. Really brings to life the desperate political times of the late seventies intertwined with the fascinating changes in popular culture. Real 'you c... moreouldn't make it up' stuff with an astonishing cast of heroes and villains. I found myself screaming at the ineptitude of Wilson; aghast and open-mouthed at the willful destruction wrought on his own party and the country by Tony Benn; then wishing things to be different for Uncle Jim and Denis Healey as they finally began to get a grip - before the unions stepped in and crushed them and handed the next 18 years to Mrs T. Tremendously written, hugely detailed and always holding the interest. less

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