The Age of Illusion: England in the Twenties and Thirties 1919-1940

by Ronald Blythe

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The author of Akenfield's brilliant reconstruction of life in England between the wars, a period abounding with astonishing figures from Joynson-Hicks cleaning up London's morals while defending the shooting of 379 Indians at Amritsar, to T.E. Lawrence, Mrs Meyrick being regularly raided at the '43', and the Rector of Stiffkey's remarkable capers.
  • ISBN10 1842122584
  • ISBN13 9781842122587
  • Publish Date 18 October 2001
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 29 July 2006
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 304
  • Language English