The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation

by Correlli Barnett (Author)

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  Paperback
  1987

  $3.37

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $13.50

  The second book in The Pride and the Fall sequence on British power in the 20th century, this work places Britain's decline since World War II in a new perspective. Based on an analysis of unpublished government records, the text shows that Britain's wartime performance, far from marking a supreme achievement of national genius and effort, was in reality characterized by all the classic symptoms of the British disease . By the time they had taken down the bunting from the streets after V-E Day and turned from the war to the future, the British, in their dreams and illusions, and in their flinching from reality, had already written the scenario for Britain's post-war descent.