Our Times - The Age of Elizabeth II

This copy a bit scruffy.

When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would take place over the next fifty years, in Britain and around the world. Wilson takes the reader on an exhilarating hourney from that day to this. With his acute eye, not just for the broad social and cultural sweep, but also for the telling detail, he brilliantly distils half a century of unprecedented social and political change. It makes compelling reading for anyone interested in the forces that have shaped our world...