The Collapse of British Power

By Correlli Barnett

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571281699
• ISBN13: 9780571281695
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Faber Finds
• Length: 658 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"