The Thirties: An Intimate History of BritainAcclaimed author of 'Wartime', Juliet Gardiner, brings to life the long neglected decade of the twentieth century the 1930s. J. B. Priestley famously described the 'three Englands' he saw in the 1930s: Old England, nineteenth century England and the new, post war England. Thirties Britain was, indeed, a land of contrasts, at once a nation rendered hopeless by the Depression, unemployment and international tensions, yet also a place of complacent