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HATTERSLEY,ROY**: : BORROWED TIME: The Story of Britain Between the Wars.[Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN,2007.

ISBN 9780316730327.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[The first reprint - in the same year as original publication.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but author's neat,black ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,colour pictorial illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with fluorescent green gilt and red and black ink lettering, fluorescent silver gilt and red lettering to spine/backstrip,rear panel with black lettered critics' reviews; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Rear panel's white background minimally foxed/ spotted.Top edges generally bright and clean,fore-edges minimally and sporadically foxed/ spotted but still clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark green cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped white ink printed letters to spine/ backstrip and clean green+white motif illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint,vi-viiipp+2-454pp [paginated] includes verso page of contents l;ist/ table,a preface,an introduction,Pts I-IV comprising 12 chapters - 4 each per Pt, 16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp152 and pp296/7 respectively,notes,a select biblio and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title,SIGNED title page,recto of content list/table page,recto of preface, and acknowledgements at the rear. Called an uneasy peace,the twenty years between the wars was a time of turmoil. Britain saw a general strike and the worst economic crisis in its history,armed rebellion in Ireland and open revolt in India.The Prime Minister resigned from his party in favour of a coalition with his traditional enemies.The King abdicated in order to marry a twice-divorced American. Crisis followed crisis until Britain was engulfed in the Second World War - a catastrophe that could have been foreseen, possibly even prevented. But there were also moments of triumph and reasons for joy.England regained the Ashes and Britain ran to glory in the 'Chariots of Fire' Olympic Games.The BBC was born and became the envy of the free world.British pilots pioneered new aviation routes.There was a renaissance in poetry,sculpture of genius,and cinema lightened the darkness of millions of lives. However it is not the cricketers,the artists or even the film stars who have really come to personify the years between the wars.It is the politicians who failed - in particular Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin.Both prime ministers were better men than history allows.And Winston Churchill? Right or wrong,success or failure,he was the irrepressible force in what he called the 'years for the locusts to eat'. Illuminating,entertaining and bold,Roy Hattersley's 'Borrowed Time' is a brilliant and masterly reassessment of the social and political landscape at the beginning of the 20thC. Roy Hattersley was elected to Parliament in 1964.He served in Harold Wilson's government and in Jim Callaghan's Cabinet. In 1983 he became deputy leader of the Labour Party.As well as contributing to a host of national newspapers,he has written (to date) nineteen books,including the much-acclaimed 'Who Goes Home?' (- see my book ID rja616716),'Fifty Years On' and 'John Wesley: A Brand from the Burning.' He has been a visiting Fellow of Harvard's Institute of Politics and of Nuffield College,Oxford.In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015, and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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Author SIGNED - without dedication.

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