Examines the foreign policy of the British Labour government from 1945-1946. Saville demonstrates the continuity between Labour's policies and those of previous administrations, underscoring the influence of the permanent staff at the Foreign Office on transient politicians.
John Saville is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Hull. For a quarter of a century he was joint editor of the Socialist Register and is joint editor of the Dictionary of Labour Biography. His recent books include 1848: The British State and the Chartist Movement (1987) and The British Labour Movement: A Commentary (1988). He is a vice-president of the Labour History Society, president of the Oral History Society, and a former chairman of the Economic and Social History Committee of the original Social Sciences Research Council.
Why are our victories of 1945 so often thrown away afterwards?
Devastating answers emerge from this cool enquiry. Very much a book
for today.
*Basil Davidson*
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