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Ruth Winstone retells Britain's history through the great diarists of the last century, drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes, their doubts, ambitions, and emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it, showing the elation, anger, doubts, jealousy, joys and fears of those such as Nicolson, Cooper, Channon, Macmillan, Castle, Clark, Benn, Campbell, Mullin and Ashdown as they record their own and the nation's triumphs and disasters. To this potent mix she adds the mordant perceptions of observers like Virginia Woolf, Cecil Beaton, Peter Hall and Roy Strong, and the vivid records of everyday life found in the diaries of otherwise ordinary men and women. Events, Dear Boy, Events reveals Britain's recent past in the words of the actors who were shaping the events of the day. This is living real-time history.Product Identifiers
PublisherProfile Books
ISBN-139781846684326
eBay Product ID (ePID)117402774
Product Key Features
Number of Pages640 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameEvents, Dear Boy, Events: a Political Diary of Britain 1921-2010
Publication Year2012
SubjectHistory
TypeTextbook
AuthorRuth Winstone
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height242 mm
Item Weight1045 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorRuth Winstone