This history of Great Britain between the World Wars chronicles the British response—social, intellectual, and cultural—to the crisis touched off by the catastrophic events of 1914–18. The Great War had shattered belief in progress, creating a morbid sense, especially pronounced among educated and politically engaged Britons, that the world was entering a new Dark Age. Th (...)
November 30, 1999
Books
The End Was Coming
The Twilight YearsThe Paradox of Britain between the WarsRichard OveryViking, $35, 522 pp.
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