{"product_id":"the-morbid-age-9780141003252","title":"The Morbid Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Overy''s \u003ci\u003eThe Morbid Age \u003c\/i\u003eopens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity; it was the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist: Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H. G. Wells, Marie Stopes and a host of others. Yet, as Richard Overy argues, a striking characteristic of so many of the ideas that emerged from this new age - from eugenics to the Freudian unconscious, to modern ideas of pacifism and world government - was the fear that the West was faced a dystopian future of war, economic collapse and racial degeneration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Brilliantly evoking a Britain of BBC radio lectures, public debates, peace demonstrations, pamphleteers, psychoanalysts, anti-fascist volunteers, sex education manuals and science fiction,\u003ci\u003e The Morbid Age\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a time at once different from, and yet surprisingly similar to, our own. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWonderfully compelling ... never less than a delight to read ... supremely well informed, thoughtful and enjoyable -- Dominic Sandbrook * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eOvery is one of the great historians of the second world war -- Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eIt's difficult to do justice to the richness of Overy's account -- Noel Malcolm * Saturday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eIt is hard to imagine anyone recording these times more exactly and more intelligently, or with greater insight and scholarship, than Overy has in this book -- Simon Heffer * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003ea rewarding book, and a highly readable one -- John Gross * Standpoint *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732386328919,"sku":"9780141003252","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-morbid-age-9780141003252","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}