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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. Britain was full of promise as it entered the second decade of the 20th Century. This portrait of a society on the brink of a changing world and the brink of a world war reconstructs events and the lives of key individuals in novelistic detail. Important for background to the war that began the twentieth century's wars, and for a picture of lost innocence. xiii+290 pages, b/w photos, index. Published @ 14.99 Pounds. Seller Inventory # 016581
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. One summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinskys gravity-defying leaps. The aristocracy was at play, bounding from house party to the next; the socialite Lady Michelham travelled with her nineteen yards of pearls. Rupert Brooke (a 23-year-old poet in love with love, Keats, marrons glaces and truth) swam in the river at Grantchester. But perfection was over-reaching itself. The rumble of thunder from the summer's storms presaged not only the bloody war years ahead: the country was brought to near standstill by industrial strikes, and unrest exposed the chasm between privileged and poor; as if the heat was torturing those imprisoned in society's straitjacket and stifled by the city smog. Children, seeking relief from the scorching sun, drowned in village ponds. What the protagonists could not have known is that they were playing out the backdrop to WWI; in a few years time the world, let alone England, would never be the same again. Through the eyes of a series of exceptional individuals; a debutante, a suffragette, a politician, a trade unionist, a butler and the Queen; Juliet Nicolson illuminates a turning point in history. With the gifts of a great storyteller she rekindles a vision of a time when the sun shone but its shadows fell on all. The enchanting and absorbing story of a remarkable summer; defining a world on the cusp of irrevocable change Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780719562433
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Book Description Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. The enchanting and absorbing story of a remarkable season; defining a world on the cusp of irrevocable change. Seller Inventory # B9780719562433
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Book Description Condition: New. The enchanting and absorbing story of a remarkable season; defining a world on the cusp of irrevocable change Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 x 8pp b&w photos. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232. . 2007. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780719562433
Book Description Condition: New. The enchanting and absorbing story of a remarkable season; defining a world on the cusp of irrevocable change Num Pages: 304 pages, 2 x 8pp b&w photos. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232. . 2007. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780719562433
Book Description PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # HU-9780719562433