A World to Build
- ISBN-10
- 0747585407
- ISBN-13
- 9780747585404
- Category
- Great Britain
- Pages
- 322
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Author
- David Kynaston
Description
Presents a pictures of post-war Britain through the eyes of those who lived there - Judy Haines, a Chingford housewife, struggling daily with food rationing; Henry St John, a self-serving civil servant in Bristol; and, the young Glenda Jackson, taking her 11-plus.
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