The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A twentieth-century history
Allen Lane, $69.99 hb, 711 pp, 9781846147753
History
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A twentieth-century history by David Edgerton
by Simon Tormey •
As we await the fate of the United Kingdom in its tortuous process of extricating itself from the European Union, what better time to produce a provocatively titled text purporting to trace nothing less than the rise and decline of the British nation?
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