Collapse of British Power, The

von Correlli Barnett

658 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The Collapse of British Power (1972) was the first entry in what became known as Correlli Barnett's 'Pride & Fall' sequence on British power in the twentieth century. It is concerned chiefly with the years 1918-1940 wherein historians have often focused on the great monetary and human costs of the First World War. Barnett, however, issues a bold and detailed indictment of Britain's strategic over-stretch, its attachment to the Commonwealth and to a 'world power' status that, by the end of the Second World War, it could no longer afford - at a moment, moreover, when capital investment in industrial modernization was sorely required.

• Reihe: Faber Finds
• ISBN: 9780571281695
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.08.2011
• Größe: 246 x 139 mm
• Verlag: Faber and Faber Ltd (POD)