An authoritative study of the Conservative party in the war and in the period of postwar reconstruction through to the Suez crisis. In these, the Churchill and Eden years, the same men who had held cabinet office before 1939 led the party through to postwar recovery in 1951. Only in 1957, after Suez, did they hand over to the next generation. John Ramsden argues that Macmillan's was the first truly 'post-war' cabinet not dominated by the presence or memory of Churchill. The book explores local conservatism, and its relations with the centre, as well as the national party, to present a collective biography of the Conservatives in the years which saw the end of Britain as an international superpower.
- ISBN10 0582504635
- ISBN13 9780582504639
- Publish Date 28 September 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 February 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 360
- Language English