The Road To 1945 - British Politics and the Second World War Revised Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

The war years witnessed a radical shift in political power, expressed in Labour's decisive electoral victory victory in 1945. In his classicstudy - now revised - Paul Addison traces this sea-change back to the Thirties and powerfully recaptures the spirit of post-war reconstruction. 'It tells with wit, scholarship and imagination how the British peopleentered the Promised Land - or seemed to' OBSERVER 'This is a landmark in the writing of contemporary history and deserves wide acclaim' TLS