The collapse of British power
"'The summer of 1940 marked the consummation of an astonishing decline in British fortunes. The British invested their feebleness and isolation with a romantic glamour - they saw themselves as latter-day Spartans, under their own Leonidas, holding the pass for the civlised world. In fact, it was a sorry and contemptible plight for a great power, and it derived neither from bad luck, nor from the failures of others. It had been brought down upon the British by themselves.' Once...the British wer…
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- Full title :The collapse of British power / Correlli Barnett.
Summary
"'The summer of 1940 marked the consummation of an astonishing decline in British fortunes. The British invested their feebleness and isolation with a romantic glamour - they saw themselves as latter-day Spartans, under their own Leonidas, holding the pass for the civlised world. In fact, it was a sorry and contemptible plight for a great power, and it derived neither from bad luck, nor from the failures of others. It had been brought down upon the British by themselves.' Once...the British were thoroughly hard-nosed and aggressive about foreign plicy, but with Wellington's victory at Waterloo, there appeared the first signs of a moral change that was to leave them fatally unprepared to meet the challenges of the determined imperialists guiding other nations in the twentieth century."--Taken from book jacket flap.
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- Publication Date:©1972
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Morrow
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1972
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 643 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0688000010, 9780688000011
- oclc:ocm00297694
- LC Classification:DA566.2
- Dewey Decimal:327.42
Table of Contents
The audit of war -- All that is noble and good -- The greatest power in the world -- An imperial commonwealth -- Convenants without swords -- Victory at all costs.
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