Following the Never Again and Having It So Good, the third part of Peter Hennessy's acclaimed Trilogy is here.

In 1960, Harold Macmillan declared that the wind of change was blowing over Africa and the rest of the British Empire. However, it was also blowing over Britain - its society, its relationship with Europe, its nuclear and defense policies. Life was lived with the awareness that it could end in just a single afternoon's thermonuclear exchange if the tense, armed peace of the Cold War turned into a Third World War.

In Winds of Change, we follow the gradual formation of Macmillan's "grand design" - how to be part of both a strong transatlantic alliance and Europe, dealing with his fellow geostrategists Kennedy and De Gaulle. The focus of the book is 1963 - the year of the Profumo Crisis, the Great Train Robbery, the explosion of satire, De Gaulle's veto of the UK's first application to join the EEC, Macmillan's fall, and his unexpected succession by Alec Douglas-Home.

As in his previous books about British life, Never Again and Having it so Good, Peter Hennessy analyzes the political, economic, cultural, and social aspects of a nation with unique humor and empathy. No historian knows the paths and roads of the archives better, and no one conveys the flavor of the era so charmingly. The early 1960s come alive again in these pages.

Pages: 624, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm