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An edition of The collapse of British power (1972)

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"'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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Morrow
Language
English
Pages
643

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Politics and government British National characteristics Commonwealth of Nations National characteristics, British Commonwealth (Organization) National characteristics, English English National characteristics Military History History, Military Foreign relations History Great britain, politics and government, 20th century Great britain, history, 20th century Great britain, history, military Great britain, foreign relations, 20th century

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Commonwealth countries Great Britain

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1910-1936 1936-1945 20th century George V, 1910-1936 George VI, 1936-1952
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Cover of: The collapse of British power
The collapse of British power
1997, Sutton Publishing
in English
Cover of: The collapse of British power
The collapse of British power
1986, Humanities Press International
in English
Cover of: The collapse of British power
The collapse of British power
1984, Alan Sutton
in English
Cover of: The collapse of British power.
The collapse of British power.
1972, Eyre Methuen Ltd
in English
Cover of: The collapse of British power.
The collapse of British power.
1972, Morrow
in English
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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 597-618.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
327.42
Library of Congress
DA566.2 .B37, DA566.2.B37

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 643 p.
Number of pages
643

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL5761347M
Internet Archive
collapseofbritis00barn
ISBN 10
0688000010
LCCN
71182972
OCLC/WorldCat
297694
LibraryThing
21123
Goodreads
2910136

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Work ID
OL3381160W

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