Don’t Look Down
Nicholas Spice: Dull Britannia, 8 April 2010
Family Britain 1951-57
by David Kynaston.
Bloomsbury, 776 pp., £25, November 2009,978 0 7475 8385 1 Show More
by David Kynaston.
Bloomsbury, 776 pp., £25, November 2009,
“... immediately after the war, conditions in Britain, especially in the cities, were pretty grim. As David Kynaston tells it, people were exhausted, low in spirits, their resources depleted, and over everything there hung the threat of another, probably terminal war. The dawn of the postwar era was cold and dark and bleak, but there was a touch of pink in the ... ”