{"product_id":"2940033015023","title":"A Changing World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of life in an English town and an English community as seen through the eyes of an ordinary English family – the author’s own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt focuses on the years from the 1930s through to the 1960s and covers a period when the country was changing perhaps faster that it ever has before or since. From a familiar world in which life was simple and expectations modest, values were upheld and the community spirit prevailed, Britain was plunged into the chaos of war at a time when most people could all too clearly recall the horror of the preceding one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever have the British people pulled together so strongly as they did in the war years, but with peacetime in the 1940s came unexpected challenges – economic strife, a slackening of social mores and moral codes and a new materialism. With these changes came new attitudes to work and its rewards which would greatly hamper our recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerence Kearey’s portrait of an England responding to the pressure of rapid social and economic change has the authority of meticulous research – yet its intimate perspective renders it far more personal and vivid than any ordinary history book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mereo Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106664988912,"sku":"2940033015023","price":2.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940033015023_p0.jpg?v=1769887932","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940033015023","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}