📱 eBook en inglés 1956

1956: a defining year that heralded the modern era.Britain and France occupied Suez, and the Soviet Union tanks rolled into Hungary. Nikita Khrushchevs secret speech exposed the crimes of Stalin, and the Royal Court Theatre unveiled John Osbornes Look Back in Anger. Rock n roll music was replacing the gentle pop songs of Mum and Dads generation, and it was the first full year of independent television.As post-war assumptions were shattered, the upper middle class was shaken and the communist left was shocked, radical new ideas about sex, skiffle and socialism emerged, and attitudes shifted on an unprecedented scale - precipitated by the decline of Attlees Britain and the first intimations of Thatchers.From politics and conflict to sport and entertainment, this extraordinary book transports us back in time on a whirlwind journey through the history, headlines and happenings of this most momentous of years, vividly capturing the revolutionary spirit of 1956 - the year that changed Britain.