Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday Times Book of the Week

'Enormously enjoyable' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

Excellent ... illuminates a fascinating and still under-explored period in British youth culture and social history' Jon Savage, New Statesman

With their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a new era for a generation of teenagers raised on a diet of drab clothes, Blitz playgrounds and tinned dinners.

From the Edwardian origins of their fashion to the tabloid fears of delinquency, drunkenness ...