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Dominic Sandbrook is nearing completion of his great multi-volume history of postwar Britain from the mid 1950s to the late 1980s, which began with Never Had It So Good. He has written and presented a number of highly successful BBC television series, on subjects as diverse as the joys of the Volkswagen and the history of science fiction. He writes reviews and articles principally for the Daily Mail and Sunday Times.
Like its predecessors, Who Dares Wins is a rich mixture of
political narrative and social reportage. It is scholarly,
accessible, well written, witty and incisive. It fizzes with
character and anecdote ... Superb.
*The Sunday Times*
Magisterial ... If anyone wants to know what has been happening to
Britain since the 1950s, it is difficult to imagine a more
informative, or better-humoured guide ... a Thucydidean coolness,
balance and wisdom that is superb.
*The Times*
Superb ... Immaculately well-researched, breathtakingly broad and
beautifully written. One defies anyone, even a specialist, not to
learn something from it ... Sandbrook leaves the reader impatient
for the next volume.
*Daily Telegraph*
Painstaking, enjoyable, even-handed ... you may feel a nice balance
of piquancy and poignancy in having those years brought to life by
the historian's magic wand.
*The Observer*
Brilliant ... The political manoeuvrings of 1979-82 are traced with
a novelistic verve that would have done credit to House of
Cards.
*BBC History Magazine*
Dominic Sandbrook's great chronicle of Britain locates the big
political narrative always in a wider social context than just
by-election swings and Westminster roundabouts ... It all comes
flooding back.
*The Spectator*
This is vividly panoramic history, ranging from high affairs of
state to the tiniest textural details of everyday life ... His
sources are joyously eclectic ... We wait impatiently for the next
course of this richly satisfying historical feast.
*Literary Review*
A magnificent history ... Who Dares Wins captures the period with
clairvoyant vividness. Compulsively readable, the book will be
indispensable to anyone who wants to understand these pivotal
years.
*New Statesman*
Masterful, mammoth ... rich and rewarding ... One of the book's
great strengths is that although we know how the story will end we
are still kept in suspense - not because of doubts over the
outcome, but because Sandbrook situates the reader firmly back in
those crucial years ... The result is a full and rich account of
the period.
*Financial Times*
Worth every penny, an enjoyable romp ... It's a great read.
*The Daily Express*
A magisterial history of three momentous years ... the author
succeeds triumphantly.
*The Article*
You don't have to have grown up with the Mini Metro, Lymeswold
cheese and the Sinclair Spectrum v BBC Micro to adore this
brilliant history of the Eighties. It slides compellingly from
socialism to Soft Cell's Tainted Love and made me want to be 10
again, bewildered by the Falklands War on TV.
*London Evening Standard*
Praise for THE GREAT BRITISH DREAM FACTORY: Delightfully good ...
an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture.
*The Observer*
Not only thoroughly entertaining, but crammed with as many serious
insights as a shelf-full of academic studies.
*The Telegraph*
Relentlessly entertaining.
*The Sunday Times*
I read it in less than two days, my attention never flagging ... It
is dramatic, perceptive and often extremely funny.
*The Spectator*
Terrific fun ... Sandbrook isn't like other historians ... He heads
off down strange, neglected byways, teasing out unexpected
connections, with the results often proving far more illuminating -
and enjoyable - than conventional narratives ... I defy you not to
be swept up in a narrative that's as colourful as it is
dramatic.
*Mail on Sunday*
Like its predecessors, Who Dares Wins is a rich mixture of
political narrative and social reportage. It is scholarly,
accessible, well written, witty and incisive. It fizzes with
character and anecdote ... Superb.
*The Sunday Times*
Magisterial ... If anyone wants to know what has been happening to
Britain since the 1950s, it is difficult to imagine a more
informative, or better-humoured guide ... a Thucydidean coolness,
balance and wisdom that is superb.
*The Times*
Painstaking, enjoyable, even-handed ... you may feel a nice balance
of piquancy and poignancy in having those years brought to life by
the historian's magic wand.
*The Observer*
Dominic Sandbrook's great chronicle of Britain ... locates the big
political narrative always in a wider social context than just
by-election swings and Westminster roundabouts ... It all comes
flooding back.
*The Spectator*
Worth every penny, an enjoyable romp ... It's a great read.
*The Daily Express*
This is vividly panoramic history, ranging from high affairs of
state to the tiniest textural details of everyday life ... His
sources are joyously eclectic ... We wait impatiently for the next
course of this richly satisfying historical feast.
*Literary Review*
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