The People's War Britain 1939-1945

"A tour de force of historical reconstruction" Sunday Times "The People's War is more than a salutary iconoclastic analysis of its period and more than an immensely fastidious social history. It is full of vivid anecdote...and of epigrammatic flair... I've read Angus Calder's book several times and passed it on to friends. I've commissioned and directed several plays and films which have been inspired by it. It is a dense, detailed, moving chronicle that I am still unable to read without feeling both nostalgia and pain for the unfulfilled promise of the world I was born into" -- Richard Eyre Independent on Sunday "No verdict can I pronounce on The People's War other than, read it" -- Elizabeth Bowen Spectator "He has provided an engrossing, beautifully organized book that could provide a valuable education for the post-war generation and a salutary re-education for his elders" -- Phillip French Financial Times "The best social history of the second world war" -- John Vincent Sunday Telegraph