The Audit of War - Correlli Barnett

Title: The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation
Author: Correlli Barnett
Publisher: Papermac, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd
Format: Paperback
Edition: First Papermac paperback edition, 1987. First published in 1986 by Macmillan London Limited.
ISBN: 0-333-43458-7
Condition: Second-hand. Good. Moderate shelf wear, rubbing and scuffing to the covers, with edge and corner wear and some small creases and surface marks. The spine shows light wear but remains intact. Pages are generally clean with light age toning. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Historian Correlli Barnett examines Britain’s decline after the Second World War by reassessing the country’s wartime performance and the economic, political, educational and institutional weaknesses that shaped the post-war period.

Drawing on government records and a broad historical argument, Barnett challenges celebratory accounts of Britain’s wartime achievement and traces what he saw as the deeper causes of the nation’s loss of industrial and international power.

About the Author: Correlli Barnett was a British military historian and writer known for his studies of war, national power and Britain’s twentieth-century political and economic history. His work often challenged established interpretations of British military and industrial performance.