David Edgerton

Sixty years on

In two books on the upheavals — and communist scare-mongering— 60 years ago at home and abroad, Soviet Man seems a model of tact compared to the imperious British establishment

  • 1956: The World in Revolt

    Simon Hall

    Faber, pp. 528

  • 1956: The Year That Changed Britian

    Francis Beckett and Tony Russell

    Biteback, pp. 320

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