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Henry Pelling - The Labour Governments, 194551 - 9781349174331 - V9781349174331
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The Labour Governments, 194551

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Description for The Labour Governments, 194551 Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
This book, by the author of the best-seller 'Winston Churchill' , is a concise reassessment of the first postwar British Governments based upon original sources - a task not previously attempted by any scholar. While sympathetic to Labour's aims in the 1945 general election campaign - which itself receives fresh treatment - Henry Pelling exposes areas of difficulty and weakness in the Government's strategy and uncovers the doubts and hesitations of its leaders. Much of the evidence comes from official papers recently released to the Public Record Office; but the private papers of Attlee, Morrison, Bevin and Dalton, among others, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
313
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349174331
SKU
V9781349174331
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99-15

About Henry Pelling
DR HENRY PELLING is Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Reader in Recent British History. Born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, and educated at Birkenhead School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he read classics initially and then (after fours years' service in the British Army during the Second World War) history. In 1949 he became a Fellow of The ... Read more

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