Winds of Change: Britain in the Sixties

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Harold Macmillanthe presiding figure in Peter Hennessys magnificent new historyfamously said in 1960 that the wind of change was blowing over Africa and the remaining British Empire. But it was blowing over Britain tooits society; its relationship with Europe; its nuclear and defense policy. And where it was not blowing hard enough the United Kingdoms economic performance great efforts were made to blow away the cobwebs of old industrial practices and poor labor relations. Life was lived in the knowledge that it could end in a single afternoon of thermonuclear exchange if the uneasy armed peace of the Cold War tipped into World War III. As with his acclaimed histories of British life in the two previous decades Never Again and Having it so Good Peter Hennessy covers the political economic cultural and social aspects of a nation with inimitable wit and empathy.