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The Decline of Power, 19151964

by Robert Blake
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780571296262
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publisher Imprint: Faber & Faber
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 482
  • Original Price: GBP 20.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Main
  • Item Weight: 518 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Great Britain / General

Between the disintegration of the Liberal Party in 1915 and the election of Harold Wilson's Labour in 1964, Britain weathered a turbulent half-century including two world wars and many profound socio-political changes. What did not survive this tumult was Britain's sea-based Empire, as the great land-based USA and USSR now assumed dominance. With customary wit, scholarship and wisdom Robert Blake guides the reader through Britain's slow decline from the world's premier power to a nation with no military commitments East of Suez: still important, wishing to see itself as 'a cut above the rest', but now effectively no better than third-ranking.

' T]he most successful sections are] the four brilliant chapters on the Second World War... But it is not only for these that "The Decline of Power "should be read. It is a fair-minded book... fluently, even racily written...' Peter Pulzer, "London Review of Books"

"Robert Blake" (1916-2003) was the pre-eminent Tory historian of his day. In addition to his masterpiece, his biography of "Disraeli, " his books include "Bonar Law: The Unknown Prime Minister," "The Conservative Party from Peel to John Major" and a volume in the Paladin History of England, (a series which he edited), "The Decline of Power, 1915-1964." These and "Disraeli's Grand Tour" are all being reissued in Faber Finds.

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