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Title: Britain Since 1945: A Political History by David Childs ISBN: 0-415-24804-3 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $31.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Britain Since 1945 : A Political History
Comment: An excellent book that is useful to all students of British History. I was particularly pleased to see a section on Ireland included as it is all too often neglected, even though our histories are so intertwined.

David Childs takes a multi-disciplinary approach with a 'panoramic' view of society from a political perspective. This academic book is very accessible to people with a general interest in British political history.

Graham Duncan - Dublin

Rating: 3
Summary: historical read with well presented facts
Comment: childs book is an extremely interesting read,it details almost all relevant historical political data from the watershed of 1945 right through the changes in govt for the next 45 years or so,detailing the feeling of the public when labour win with its first majority govt,the personalities are pretty well documentated in the chapters,the divisions within the labour party after the election win,the witchhunt aginst the communists at the peak of the cold war and the battle for attlees leadership by morrison,the conservatives acceptance of certain nationalisation issues,their consensus with labour on certain apects of the welfare state,the conservatives change of policies that gained them power again from 1951 -64,churchill and mc millans leader ship,relinquinshig india and the start of the cold war right through to the trade unions power and the miners strikes and edward heath and harold wilsons era right through to thatchers win in 79 ,her free market policies ,strong on law and order ,scrapping trade unions power,her hatred of socialism and her capitalistic policies,keeping her cabinet in the dark over lots of issues,poll tax and hungerstrikes are all well documented ,childs exaggerated in the section on terrorism when he wrote in deal england 40 soldiers were killed by the ira when in fact only 8 were killed .black monday and her being pushed out paving the way for major.