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Alwyn Turner is a historian and writer who teaches at the University of Chichester. He is best known for his histories of twentieth-century Britain; All in it Together was a Sunday Times Book of the Year, and his last book, Little Englanders, was a Times History Book of the Year.
This is just glorious: almost every page stops you dead with insight into a world at once utterly strange, yet still living somewhere within us all -- James Hawes, author * The Shortest History of England * This is both enjoyable and moving. Alwyn Turner has a knack for digging beneath the official historical record and extracting the flavour and texture of real life in the early twentieth century. In A Shellshocked Nation he draws on popular culture to show how a nation shocked, maddened and silenced by grief dealt with the traumatic efforts of one war and the build-up to the next -- Lucy Lethbridge, author * Tourists: How the British went Abroad * Praise for Little Englanders: A page-turner of a popular history of the period, crammed with humour and striking quotes -- Andrew Marr * New Statesman * There have been plenty of books on the Edwardians before, but never one as richly enjoyable as this -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times * For sheer entertainment, this rollicking account of Britain before the Great War is hard to beat -- 'History Books of the Year' * The Times * The very best sort of panoramic portrait -- David Kynaston
