Having it so good : Britain in the fifties / Peter Hennessy.

London : Penguin, 2007.

xvii, 740 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.

Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

The author takes his readers into the front-rooms where the Coronation was watched on television, to the classrooms and new coffee bars of 1950s Britain - and also into the secret Cabinet rooms in which decisions about the British nuclear bomb were taken and plans made for the catastrophe of nuclear war.

9780141004099 (pbk)

941.0855
941.0855

English

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