State of emergency : the way we were : Britain, 1970-1974 /
Dominic Sandbrook.
- London : Penguin, 2011.
- 754 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In this history, Dominic Sandbrook recreates the gaudy atmosphere of the early 1970s: the world of Enoch Powell & Tony Benn, David Bowie & Brian Clough, Germaine Greer & Mary Whitehouse. An age when the unions were on the march & the socialist revolution seemed at hand.