As the toffs began to retreat
Neal Ascherson: Declinism, 22 November 2018
What We Have Lost: The Dismantling of Great Britain
by James Hamilton-Paterson.
Head of Zeus, 360 pp., £25, October 2018,978 1 78497 235 6 Show More
by James Hamilton-Paterson.
Head of Zeus, 360 pp., £25, October 2018,
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A 20th-Century History
by David Edgerton.
Allen Lane, 681 pp., £30, June 2018,978 1 84614 775 3 Show More
by David Edgerton.
Allen Lane, 681 pp., £30, June 2018,
“... its failure to maintain the extraordinary industrial and scientific leadership it once attained. David Edgerton’s book, the more academic of the two, is a brilliant and often very aggressive challenge to a set of assumptions about the recent past. James Hamilton-Paterson, still one of England’s most skilled and alluring prose writers in or out of ... ”