Detail from book cover of Censorship Overruled: An alternative history of 1918, by John Ellison

Author: John Ellison. Review by Christine Hayes

Censorship Overruled: An alternative history of 1918, by John Ellison

Author: John Ellison. Review by Christine Hayes

by Christine Hayes 9th July 2021

John Ellison’s short book opens at the beginning of 1918, when there was much discontent over food shortages and prices in Britain. There were many calls for peace, stimulated by Russia’s socialist revolution in 1917. It concentrates on the following eleven months, January to November, with Britain centre-stage.