Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s

Britain in the 1980s was a polarized country led by a polarizing politician, Margaret Thatcher. This lively history charts the political and social developments of the decade, from the riots that shook Britain's cities to the privatization of state-owned industries, from the miners' strike to Live Aid, from the Falklands War to the emergence of alternative comedy. It illustrates in vivid detail how this strife-torn era reshaped the nation.