Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 Audiobook (Free)

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The early 1980s were one of the most dramatic, colourful and controversial in our modern history. Margaret Thatcher had come to power using a daring intend to change Britain’s drop into shabbiness and chaos. But as factories shut their doors, dole queues lengthened as well as the inner metropolitan areas exploded in flames, would her severe medicine rescue the Ill Man of European countries – or destroy it off?

Evocative, surprising and gloriously enjoyable, Dominic Sandbrook’s fresh reserve recreates the about Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 great turning point in Britain’s contemporary history. For some people this is an age group of unparalleled chance, the heyday of computer systems and bank cards, snooker, Sloane Rangers and Spandau Ballet.

But as industries collapsed, working-class communities buckled as well as the Labour Party tore itself apart, it had been also an age of outstanding acrimony. And when Argentine causes seized the Falklands, it appeared the ultimate humiliation to get a deeply divided nation.

Here are the early 1980s in every their gaudy glory: Tony Benn, Ken Livingstone, Ian Botham and Princess Diana. Here are Pleasure Division, Chariots of Fire, the Austin Metro and Juliet Bravo; wine bars, Luxury cruise missiles, the battle of Goose Green and the ZX Range. And towering above all of them, one of the most controversial Primary Minister in our modern history – the Iron Woman.