The Making of Modern Britain: From Queen Victoria to V.E. Day

A fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the 20th century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire Beyond trenches, flappers, and Spitfires, this is a story of strange cults and economic madness, of revolutionaries and heroic inventors, sexual experiments, and raucous stage heroines. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of World War II, Great Britain was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst they had ever known a...