After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World (The World Our Parents Knew)

✍ Scribed by A. N. Wilson

• Book ID: 109518629
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Series: The Victorians 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780312425159

✦ Synopsis

The distinguished historian A.N. Wilson has charted, in vivid detail, Britain's rise to world dominance, a tale of how one small island nation came to be the mightiest, richest country on earth, reigning over much of the globe. Now in his much anticipated sequel to the classic The Victorians, he describes how in little more than a generation Britain's power and influence in the world would virtually dissolve.

In After the Victorians , Wilson presents a panoramic view of an era, stretching from the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 to the dawn of the cold war in the early 1950s. He offers riveting accounts of the savagery of World War I and the world-altering upheaval of the Communist Revolution. He explains Britain's role in shaping the destiny of the Middle East. And he casts a bright new light on the World War II years: Britain played a central role in defeating Germany but at a severe cost. The nation would emerge from the war bankrupt and fatally weakened,...