English History 1914-1945.

TAYLOR, Alan John Percivale.

Item Number: 115747

New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965.

First edition of the historian’s authoritative history of England, covering both world wars and the interwar period. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Ursula Suess.

Alan John Percivale Taylor, whose writings are always lively and often controversial, has here written with scholarly detachment one of the few books which covers the entire period of English history - two world wards and a troubled interwar era that included the Great Depression. Written impartially in regards to party, creed, and country, Taylor further discusses economic mobilization and social welfare, the demagogues of World War I, the campaigns of World War II, and the political backgrounds of both wars.