After the Victorians
by A. N. Wilson | 
Our Times
by A. N. Wilson | 
New Worlds, Lost Worlds
by Susan Brigden |
Liberty against the law
by Christopher Hill |
Foundation
by Peter Ackroyd |
The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714
by Christopher Hill |
A History of Britain: The Wars of the British: 1603-1776
by Simon Schama | 
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
by Lawrence James | 
The World We Have Lost
by Peter Laslett |
Rebellion
by Peter Ackroyd | 
A Short History of England
by G. K. Chesterton | 
Reflections on a Ravaged Century
by Robert Conquest | 
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997
by Piers Brendon |
The Civil War
by Trevor Royle | 
The English and Their History
by Robert Tombs | 
Dead Wake
by Erik Larson | 
One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson | 
Six Frigates
by Ian W. Toll |
102 Minutes
by Jim Dwyer | 
The History of Jihad
by Robert Spencer |
This book begins on 4 August 1914, the day Britain entered the 'Great War', and describes the three decades of unparalleled upheaval and change up to the defeat of Japan in 1945, which marked the end of the Second World War. Twin themes of international conflict and mass unemployment in England predominate - besides giving a full account of foreign and domestic politics which were elaborated to deal with them, Taylor also pays particular attention to the impact of events on everyday lives. This book is an essential work from one of the finest historians of the twentieth century, which no one interested in the affairs of the UK will want to be without.