Böcker av Frank Field

The impact of the First World War on European society and the rise of Communism and Fascism are important subjects that concern all students of recent history. The object of this book is to study these themes through the careers of three French writers: Henri Barbusse, Drieu la Rochelle and Georges Bernanos.

A study of the response of some of France and Britain's leading writers to the events of the First World War. Brooke, Wells, Shaw, Kipling, Lawrence, Owen and Rosenberg are set alongside Jaure, Barres, Maurras, Peguy, Psichari and Rolland, as case studies of the war's impact on Anglo-French letters.

The welfare system in the United Kingdom is broken

The last great rethink of the welfare system was the Beveridge Report of 1942.

In this text, Field challenges the current political orthodoxy, particularly its emphasis on the role of legislation alone in bringing about social improvement in a welfare state. He argues that the impact legislation has on personal character is pivotal to human advance in a welfare state.

The author gives accounts of the people who have most influenced him as a Christian in his political life, ranging from archbishops and bishops, to welfare reformers and a woman MP from Liverpool.