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Kit Kowol's study of Conservatism during the war years is historical scholarship at its best: learned, balanced, fluent and provocative. He made me look at the politics of the 1940s in an entirely new light, overturning many of the things I'd taken for granted. A wonderful book; I enjoyed it enormously. * Dominic Sandbrook, historian and co-presenter of 'The Rest is History' podcast *

A meticulously researched and strikingly fresh examination of the Conservative Party during the War...Kit Kowol does a valuable service in providing a history of a forgotten era of Conservative politics; but he also furnishes a deep history for the modern Conservative Party, rooted in that origin myth and foundational moment of modern Britain: the Second World War. * Francis Young, The Critic * Kowol's enormously stimulating analysis will make readers think about conservatism and the Second World War in a new way ... Unlike many books that are required reading, it is also fun - full of striking detail and amusingly malicious gossip. * Richard Vinen, Literary Review * The Anglo-American right today is afflicted by a lack of confidence that can make it seem incapable of addressing a growing global security crisis. Autocratic forces seek to overturn the world order built by the West after 1945. English-speaking countries sorely lack leaders with the imagination of figures like those Mr. Kowol profiles. It took a war and the leadership of a great man to inspire 20th-century British Tories to think afresh about their place in the world. One hopes todays conservatives can rediscover that hopeful and productive spirit before a similar crisis. * Michael Lucchese , Wall Street Journal * Kit Kowol's study of Conservatism during the war years is historical scholarship at its best: learned, balanced, fluent and provocative. He made me look at the politics of the 1940s in an entirely new light, overturning many of the things I'd taken for granted. A wonderful book; I enjoyed it enormously. * Dominic Sandbrook, historian and co-presenter of 'The Rest is History' podcast * A veritable abattoir of sacred cows, Blue Jerusalem takes everything you thought you knew about British domestic politics during the Second World War and turns it on its head. A generation of historians has marginalized or simply ignored Tory political thinking in those vital years, but Kit Kowol has discovered that it was suffused with genuine radicalism. This is revisionist history at its deeply-researched, well-written best, and of course could not be more timely. * Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny *

Kit Kowol's study of Conservatism during the war years is historical scholarship at its best: learned, balanced, fluent and provocative. He made me look at the politics of the 1940s in an entirely new light, overturning many of the things I'd taken for granted. A wonderful book; I enjoyed it enormously. * Dominic Sandbrook, historian and co-presenter of 'The Rest is History' podcast * A veritable abattoir of sacred cows, Blue Jerusalem takes everything you thought you knew about British domestic politics during the Second World War and turns it on its head. A generation of historians has marginalized or simply ignored Tory political thinking in those vital years, but Kit Kowol has discovered that it was suffused with genuine radicalism. This is revisionist history at its deeply-researched, well-written best, and of course could not be more timely. * Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny *

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Kit Kowol received his DPhil in Politics from Oxford University in 2014. He subsequently taught and researched at Teesside University, Christ Church (University of Oxford), and King's College London, where he was an Early Career Development Fellow in Modern British History. He now lives and works in Brisbane, Australia.

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