State of Emergency: The Way We Were

by Dominic Sandbrook

Book Overview

State of Emergency: Britain 1970-74 is a brilliant history of the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the early Seventies.

The early 1970s were the age of gloom and glam. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant memory. Now the headlines were dominated by social unrest, fuel shortages, unemployment and inflation.

The seventies brought us miners' strikes, blackouts, IRA atrocities,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141032154
• ISBN13: 9780141032153
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 754 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"