Presents defining events and characters of the modern age, from the Suez crisis to Vietnam, The Beatles to Princess Diana, the miners' strike to the Cold War. This book also features the Angry Young Men, the satirists of Beyond the Fringe, Ruth Ellis and the abolition of hanging, the rise of pop culture and celebrity, and industrial unrest.

* The sequel to NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, this completes Dominic Sandbrook's groundbreaking history of Britain in the 1960s

Examines how Ireland weathered thirty years of change, and what the changes mean. This book also looks at how characters as diverse as Gerry Adams, Mary Robinson, Charles Haughey and Bob Geldof have contributed to Ireland's altered psyche, and uncovers various scandals, corruption and marketing masterminds that have transformed Ireland.

The Piper Alpha oil platform, 110 miles northeast of Aberdeen, was once one of the world's single largest oil producer. On 6 July 1988, its final day, it was ablaze with 226 men onboard. Only sixty-one would survive. This book tells the devastating story of that summer evening.

A fresh, enlightening and comprehensive history of Britain in the early 1960s by a supremely talented young historian.

The Demise of a Superpower, 1944-47. A brilliantly detailed and argued narrative of 1944-1947, showing the interactions of political and military developments as never before.

This is the story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland told from the perspective of the British soldiers who served there between 1969 and 1998. This was a war against terrorists who knew no mercy or compassion; a war involving sectarian hatred and violent death. Over 1,000 British lives were lost in a place just 30 minutes flying time away from the mainland. The British Army was sent into ...

Evokes Britain emerging from the shadow of war and the privations of austerity and rationing into growing affluence. This book brings to life the ageing Churchill, in his last spell as Prime Minister, and Anthony Eden taking his country to war in the teeth of American opposition and world opinion.

Nearly 4,000 people were killed over the thirty or so years of the Northern Irish Troubles. Old enemies are now in government together in Belfast, and the killing has all but stopped, but peace can only endure if the dead can finally be laid to rest. This book explores the difficult legacy of this conflict.

An anthology of pieces selected to illustrate the history of our times, from the fall of Thatcher to Blair. However, the main focus is domestic: the time of Diana, the age of self-expression; the end of culture; the moment of the Yuppies; and liberty versus freedom.