Never Again: Britain 1945 to 1951

by Peter Hennessy

Book Overview

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
Winner of the NCR Award for Non-Fiction

From the high politics of Court and Cabinet room to the kitchen or the queue, Peter Hennessy's Never Again: Britain 1945-51, the first part of his Post-War Trilogy, recreates life in early post-war Britain.

'Hennessy conjures up the Attlee years more vividly than any previous writer' Ben Pimlott, Guardian

At the end of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141016027
• ISBN13: 9780141016023
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Penguin UK
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

How Britain ended the war

Peter Hennessy is one of Britain's leading political historians and journalists and this work is one of the finest examinations of Britain in the post-WWII world, both in terms of the elites and the ordinary citizen. Hennessy has a real talent not only for sorting out and assembling the hard dry facts, but also painting portraits of the leading figures of the Atlee government. While Atlee himself remains remote (as he was in life), Cripps, Ernest Bevin, and Dalton all emerge as fascinating figures. There are few books written on post war Britain that are as well researched and as compelling as this one.