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The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth Century History, by David Edgerton

Book of the week: A. W. Purdue on an argument that relocates the roots of modern Britain in the post-war period

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On War and Writing, by Samuel Hynes

Baroque between the Wars: Alternative Style in the Arts, 1918-1939, by Jane Stevenson

Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain, by Robert Saunders

Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876-1903, by Aidan Forth

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