A Shellshocked Nation: Britain Between The Wars

A fresh and inventive social history of interwar Britain, from Armistice and the Spanish flu to the announcement of war

After the calamity of the Great War, there was a desire in Britain for escapist fun - the lights of the Jazz Age, radio comedies and the pictures were a welcome respite from the grim reality of the Great Depression. Yet the storm clouds were gathering, and Britain between the wars was a turbulent, restless place - and where the foundations of the modern nation were laid.Combining cultural, social and political history, A Shellshocked Nation is the next instalment in Alwyn Turner's highly original history of the twentieth century, sketching a portrait of the interwar nation through its entertainments and scandals, its people and political crises. From the General Strike to the BBC, Irish Home Rule and the rise of fascism, this is the definitive story of Britain's most anxious era.

'[Turner is] always entertainingly brilliant' - Guardian

'This is just glorious: almost every page stops you dead with insight into a world at once utterly strange, yet still living somewhere within us all' - The Shortest History of England

'This is both enjoyable and moving. Alwyn Turner has a knack for digging beneath the official historical record and extracting the flavour and texture of real life in the early twentieth century. In A Shellshocked Nation he draws on popular culture to show how a nation shocked, maddened and silenced by grief dealt with the traumatic efforts of one war and the build-up to the next' - Tourists: How the British went Abroad

'Praise for Little Englanders: A page-turner of a popular history of the period, crammed with humour and striking quotes' - New Statesman

'There have been plenty of books on the Edwardians before, but never one as richly enjoyable as this' - Sunday Times

'For sheer entertainment, this rollicking account of Britain before the Great War is hard to beat' - The Times

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Alvin Turner - Элвин Тернер

Publisher:Profile Books

Language:English

Publication Date:2026

Number of pages:384 pst

Format:Hardcover

Width:156 mm / 6,1'

Height:240 mm / 9,4'

Weight:480 g

ISBN:9781805221876