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"
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