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The 1984-85 miners' strike--and after.('When Arthur Met Maggie')(Book review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20070622
Author:Karwowski, Michael

When Arthur Met Maggie. Patrick Hannan. Seren. [pounds sterling]9.99 p.b. 196 pages. ISBN 1-85411-422-0.

Every success, wrote the Nobel-prize-winning novelist, Hermann Hesse, contains the seeds of failure. Similarly, every failure contains the seeds of success. Nowhere is this adage more appropriate than with the British miners' strike of 1984-85, when the National Union of Mineworkers' President, Arthur Scargill, and the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, engaged in probably the most ferocious industrial struggle in the country's entire history.

For Mrs. Thatcher's ...

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