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Zusatztext [A] readable and richly detailed social history of the post-war period: it catalogues under two-and-a-half years in which, it seemed, the whole country changed . . . For all its documentary richness , the book reminds us - indeed warns us - how so much can change so quickly' Informationen zum Autor David Kynaston was born in Aldershot in 1951. He holds a degree from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is the author of Austerity Britain, 1945-51 ; Family Britain, 1951-57 ; Modernity Britain 1957-1962 ; On the Cusp ; Days of '62 ; and A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65, all volumes in a series covering the history of post-war Britain (1945-79) under the collective title ‘Tales of a New Jerusalem’. Till Time’s Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England, 1694-2013 was published in 2017. He is also author of Arlott, Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket , co-authored with Stephen Fay, Engines of Privilege, co-authored with Francis Green, Shots in the Dark , an account of the 2016/17 season of David's football team, Aldershot and Richie Benaud's Blue Suede Shoes: The Story of an Ashes Classic co-authored with Harry Ricketts. Klappentext The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator ) can. Running from 1962 to 1965, A Northern Wind is the anticipated new volume in the landmark 'Tales of a New Jerusalem' series. 'From Daleks and dingy tower blocks to nuclear threats, this addictively readable book charts dizzying change . . . Sometimes moving, often comic, always fascinating' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES How much can change in two and a half years? In the case of Britain in the Sixties, the answer is: almost everything. From the seismic coming of Liverpool's the Beatles to a sex scandal that rocked the Tory government to the arrival at No 10 of Harold Wilson, a Yorkshireman utterly different from his Old Etonian predecessors. A Northern Wind , the keenly anticipated next instalment of David Kynaston's acclaimed Tales of a New Jerusalem series, brings to vivid life the period between October 1962 and February 1965. Drawing upon an unparalleled array of diaries, newspapers and first-hand recollections, Kynaston's masterful storytelling refreshes familiar events - the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Big Freeze, the assassination of JFK, the funeral of Winston Churchill - while revealing in all their variety the experiences of the people living through this history. Major themes complement the compelling narrative: an anti-Establishment mood epitomised by the BBC's controversial That Was The Week That Was ; a welfare state only slowly becoming more responsive to the individual needs of its users; and the rise of consumer culture, as Habitat arrived and shopping centres like Birmingham's Bull Ring proliferated. Multi-voiced, multi-dimensional and immersive, Tales of a New Jerusalem has transformed how we see and understand post-war Britain. A Northern Wind continues the journey. A WATERSTONES, TIMES , TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN , SPECTATOR AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Magnificent . . . The early Sixties have never been recounted so well' THE TIMES , BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A breathtaking array of treasures . . . A book to savour' TLS 'Extraordinarily atmospheric, capturing more than anything a sense of what this moment might have felt like to live through' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Kynaston is the most humane and even-handed chronicler of our time, and the one best-qualified to carry this mightily compelling national story onwards' O...
