The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age

by Juliet Nicolson

Book Overview

Juliet Nicolson pieces together colorful personalities, historic moments, and intimate details to create a social history of the two years following the Great War in Britain. Not since Nicolson's The Perfect Summer have we seen an account that so vividly captures a nation's psyche at a particular moment in history. The euphoria of Armistice Day 1918 vaporizes to reveal the carnage that war has left in its wake. But from Britain's despair emerges new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802119441
• ISBN13: 9780802119445
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"