The twilight years
Subtitle: the paradox of Britain between the wars
By: Richard Overy.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780670021130
Subjects: Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936; Great Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Cassandras and Jeremiahs; title: Decline and fall; title: The death of capitalism; title: A sickness in the racial body; title: Medicine and poison : psychoanalysis and social dismay; title: Why war?; title: Challenge to death; title: Utopian politics : cure or disease?; title: "The voyage of the death ship":; title: War and the fate of the world; title: A morbid age.