The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s - Hardcover

Piers Brendon is the author of more than a dozen books, including biographies of Churchill and Eisenhower, the best-selling Eminent Edwardians, the highly-acclaimed The Decline and Fall of the British Empire and, most recently, Eminent Elizabethans. He also writes for television and contributes frequently to the national press. Formerly Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre, he is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

"The best history book I've read since Orlando Figes' A People's Tragedy... Wonderful and enthralling" -- Ruth Rendell * Daily Telegraph * "Brilliant, cinematic, utterly illuminating... No other historical account I know can rival this... Masterly" -- Valentine Cunningham * Financial Times * "A delight to read, a literary triumph sparkling with moments of real humour and compassion" -- Richard Overy * Sunday Telegraph * "Piers Brendon's long book has such brilliance and narrative power, and contains so much fascinating detail, that reading it has all the excitement of novel" -- John Grigg * Evening Standard *