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Friday, March 22, 2024

Bigger than "War and Peace"

 

Seasons in the Sun" is the final 1000-page volume in this great tetralogy of Britain's history since the war, and, on paper at least, the bleakest. It covers the period from March 1974 to May 1979 – the last Wilson administration, the advent of James Callaghan, the IMF crisis, the Lib-Lab Pact and the Winter of Discontent.

 

Read it online at www.archive.org

 

I picked it up at Vinnies Moruya after our usual Friday roast beef lunch at the bowling club. What are my chances of finding the preceding "State of Emergency", "White Heat", and "Never Had It So Good"?

They are on www.archive.org but who can read 3000 pages online?


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