The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-39

7 best books like The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain, 1918-39 (Robert Graves): Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, Going Solo, Parade's End, The Great Silence 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War, Of Love and Hunger, First Light, All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

Author	Patrick Hamilton
ISBN	0099479168

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky are the streets of London… And there people meet and part… And there they fall in love.
For he was in that mood when he loved all human creatures. He loved Ella because she was a good woman, and he loved the other because she was a bad woman. It was a good world.
In...

Going Solo

Author	Roald Dahl
ISBN	0141311428

Superb Stories, Daring Deeds, Fantastic Adventures

Here is the action-packed sequel to Boy, a tale of Dahl's exploits as a World War II pilot. Told with the same irresistible appeal that has made Roald Dahl one the world's best-loved writers, Going Solo brings you directly into the action...

Parade's End

Author	Ford Madox Ford
ISBN	0141186615

In creating his acclaimed masterpiece Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford wanted the Novelist in fact to appear in his really proud position as historian of his own time . . . The 'subject' was the world as it culminated in the war. Published in four parts between 1924 and 1928, his extraordinary novel centers...

The Great Silence 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War

Author	Juliet Nicolson
ISBN	0719562562

I had high hopes for this book, and was looking forward to finding out more about the two years immediately after the end of World War 1 which presaged a period of enormous social change. The book takes a chronological approach, and gives almost every chapter a one word title (e.g. Wound, Hopelessness,...

Of Love and Hunger

Author	Julian Maclaren-Ross
ISBN	0141187115

An interesting novel set in 1939 in the months before the start of war. It opens a window of an England now mostly disappeared; landladies, jobs easy to get and lots of smoking!!. However the themes of love and loss are eternal. The shadow of war is ever present. The main character isn't likeable but the...

First Light

Author	Geoffrey Wellum
ISBN	0141008148

"In First Light, Geoffrey Wellum tells the inspiring, often terrifying true story of his coming of age amid the roaring, tumbling dogfights of the fiercest air war the world had ever seen.

It is the story of an idealistic schoolboy who couldn't believe his luck when the RAF agreed to take him...

All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class

Author

Tim Shipman

'Tim Shipman's dispatches from the political front line are a must read’ NICK ROBINSON

Politics was turned upside down during 2016. This book by Sunday Times political editor Tim Shipman is the first to tell the full story of how and why Britain voted to leave the European Union and how the...