Ten Days that Changed the Nation: The Making of Modern Britain

Sometimes it is not big events or great men or women that change history. Often, an apparently trivial occasion or insignificant decision changes everything.

Stephen Pollard's alternative history of the past sixty years examines ten such crucial days in our history. None of them are obviously historic. But each of them changed the country - some for good, others for ill.

Combining history, analysis, humour and polemic, this incisive look at events stretched across six decades reveals how an...