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Marr A., The making of modern Britain — 2009

In THE MAKING OF MODERN BRITAIN,Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Beyween the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question 'How should we live?' Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads suchas eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today and the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, flappers andSpitfires, this is a story of strange cults and economic madness, of revolutionaries and heroic inventors, sexual experiments and raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs, nightclubs to package holidays, crooked bankers to sleazy politicians, the echoes of todays's Britain ring from almost every page.

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Marr A., The making of modern Britain. from Queen Victoria to VE Day — 2009

Andrew Marr—s history of Britain from 1900 to 1945 is a reminder of a time when one side could believe in the people—s flag and the other could dream of imperial expansion. The author has a hankering for times when people could be eccentric, and even when they were adopting distasteful views Marr respects their enquiries: —The question was now, —How shall we live.— Not everyone bothered to ask it. But the most interesting people did, whether their reply was to drink and take drugs, or live in a rural community, or fall for a new political creed.

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