# Winds of Change

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- Book: [Winds of Change](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-hennessy/winds-of-change) ([Winds of Change.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-hennessy/winds-of-change.md))
- Authors: [Peter Hennessy](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-hennessy)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4103-605-2
- Pages: 624
- Published: 2020-08-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter Hennessy's magnificent new history - famously said in 1960 that the wind of change was blowing over Africa and the remaining British Empire. But it was blowing over Britain too - its society; its relationship with Europe; its nuclear and defence policy. And where it was not blowing hard enough - the United Kingdom's economy - great efforts were made to wipe away the cobwebs of old industrial practices and poor labour relations. Life was lived in the knowledge that it could end in a single afternoon of thermonuclear exchange if the uneasy, armed peace of the Cold War tipped into a third world war. As with his acclaimed histories of British life in the two previous decades, Never Again and Having it so Good , Peter Hennessy explains the political, economic, cultural and social aspects of a nation with inimitable wit and empathy.