John Stevenson's social history opens with the Great War and ends with a chapter on the effects of World War II. In between, he analyses the trends and changes - mass unemployment, increasing... This description may be from another edition of this product.
As a general guide to inter-war British society, you would be hard-pressed to do better than this book. Due to the scope of the text, no single topic is covered in great detail, but as a framework to explore larger questions or as a guide to the general tone and issues of the time, it is absolutely superb, and well worth a read.
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