ABSTRACT
This comprehensive survey of English history during the first half of the twentieth century has three main themes: the political and social consequences of the replacement of the Liberal Party by the Labour Party; the continuous development of the welfare state; and the changes in England’s imperial and international position caused by the ambitions of Germany and Japan and by the emergence of the U.S.A and the U.S.S.R as world powers. The leading personalities of the period are brilliantly portrayed and the issues challengingly presently.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|40 pages
End and Beginning 1902–1914
part II|34 pages
First World War 1914–1918
part III|37 pages
The Wizard Merlin 1918–1922
part IV|50 pages
Baldwin and Macdonald 1922–1931
part V|25 pages
The National Conservatives 1931–39
part VI|55 pages
'without Grip or Grasp': British Foreign Policy 1931–1939
part VII|37 pages
War for Europe and Asia
part VIII|42 pages
A Grand Alliance? 1941–1945
part IX|71 pages
Beginning and End, 1945–1951