Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain

Wednesday, 6 August 2008 by jaduncan , , , , ,

Nati kept threatening to go to HSBC to do the loan (from 1100 to 1600 local time, in fact) but not doing so so I laid around and read Andrew Marr's A History of Modern Britain. It's an interesting book, with a few flaws that stop it being great. Marr is somewhat hamstrung by format; a book which attempts to cover 60 years of history in less pages than Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is always going to be a pen portrait and somewhat simplistic. Marr also fails to footnote enough, so one is left with many bare assertions. However the book is not academic, and the overview isolates many of the big issues well. It's an interestingly playful read, and worth a day or two.

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