Who Dares Wins
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Published in 2019, Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979–1982 is Dominic Sandbrook’s sweeping portrait of a country at a decisive crossroads. Beginning with Margaret Thatcher’s arrival in Downing Street and ending amid the consequences of the Falklands War, it charts the early years of a government determined to remake Britain, against a backdrop of industrial decline, unemployment, urban unrest and bitter political division. Alongside the great events, Sandbrook brings the period vividly to life through its music, fashions, sporting heroes and everyday rituals, from the rise of the New Romantics to the growing popularity of home computers.
The result is more than a political history: it is a portrait of a nation negotiating the end of one era and the uncertain beginnings of another. Thatcher, Tony Benn, Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer share the stage with workers, musicians, entrepreneurs and the ordinary people whose lives were shaped by economic and cultural upheaval. Combining extensive research with a storyteller’s instinct for revealing detail, Sandbrook resists easy conclusions about the Thatcher years, illuminating the competing forces that transformed modern Britain. The fifth volume in his history of post-war Britain, Who Dares Wins offers an absorbing account of the origins of a political and social settlement whose consequences continue to be debated.
From the book
“If the 1980s are as awful as they predict, the only people working at the end of them will be the experts forecasting unemployment for everyone else.”
— Dominic Sandbrook, Who Dares Wins
On Who Dares Wins
“This is vividly panoramic history, ranging from high affairs of state to the tiniest textural details of everyday life.”
— Francis Wheen, Literary Review