This comprehensive and widely acclaimed study of British history since 1945 has now been fully updated and expanded for this new edition to include a chapter on the rise of New Labour. `an outstanding work: comprehensive, lucid and judicious.' Ben Pimlott, Sunday Times `A great success ...always lucid and readable.' John Grigg, The Times `An achievement of astonishing scope and thoroughness which would be beyond the reach of most other scholars writing in English today.' John Campbell, Times Literary Supplement `Few aspects of life in Britain ...escape the author's notice and the scale and scope of the ground he covers alone makes this a work of a tour de force.' Anthony Howard, History Today `A major achievement ...the most comprehensive, detailed and objective interpretation we have on this controversial and still undigested period ...It will undoubtedly become a standard work.' Harold Perkin, Twentieth-Century British History `anyone who studies politics will want to possess his book.' Noel Annan, The Independent on Sunday `No one writes better than Dr Morgan of the rise and fall of governments, their personalities and policies, their fluid and shifting identities, their ultimate and inevitable exhaustion. He is particularly good at identifying the critical moments at which governments changed course, or lost a golden opportunity for doing so ...' Paul Addison, London Review of Books