Following Never Again and Having It So Good, the third part of Peter Hennessys celebrated PostWar TrilogyBy far the best study of early Sixties Britain ... so much fun, yet still shrewd and important The Times, Books of the Year Harold Macmillan famously said in 1960 that the wind of change was blowing over Africa and the remaining British Empire. But it was blowing over Britain too its society its relationship with Europe its nuclear and defence policy. And where it was not blowing hard enough the United Kingdoms economy great efforts were made to sweep away the cobwebs of old industrial practices and poor labour relations. Life was lived in the knowledge that it could end in a single afternoon of thermonuclear exchange if the uneasy, armed peace of the Cold War tipped into a Third World War.In Winds of Change we see Macmillan gradually working out his grand design how to be part of both a tight transatlantic alliance and Europe, dealing with his fellow geostrategists Kennedy and de Gaulle. The centre of the book is 1963 the year of the Profumo Crisis, the Great Train Robbery, the satire boom, de Gaulles veto of Britains first application to join the EEC, the fall of Macmillan and the unexpected succession to the premiership of Alec DouglasHome. Then, in 1964, the battle of what Hennessy calls the tweedy aristocrat and the tweedy meritocrat Harold Wilson, who would end 13 years of Conservative rule and usher in a new era.As in his acclaimed histories of British...

Binding: Paperback;624 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: HBJD1; Weight: 584 g; Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 31

Something not quite right? You have 21 days from the day you receive it, to send something back.

Please note, we cannot offer refunds on fashion face masks, cosmetics, pierced jewellery, adult toys, and swimwear or lingerie if the hygiene seal is not in place or has been broken.

Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.

Click here to view our full Returns Policy.