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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 Britains 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, sidelined from world politics, while America would assume the mantle of dominant world power, facing off against the Soviet Union in the cold war. Wilsons perspective is not confined to the trenches of the battlefield and the halls of parliament: he also examines the parallel story of the beginnings of Modernism-he visits the novelists, philosophers, poets, and painters to see what they reveal about the activities of the politicians, scientists, and generals.
Blending military, political, social, and cultural history of the most dramatic kind, A.N. Wilson offers an absorbing portrait of the decline of one of the worlds great powers. The result is a fresh account of the birth pangs of the modern world, as well as a timely analysis of imperialism and its discontents.
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THE DECLINE OF BRITAIN IN THE WORLD
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First section
A British soldier sets up a light Maxim gun ( Getty Images)
George Nathaniel Curzon (The Illustrated London News Picture Library, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)
Rudyard Kipling ( Getty Images)
Winston Churchill arriving by air at Portsmouth ( Getty Images)
Churchill defending Lloyd Georges Budget of 1909 ( Getty Images)
Churchill at a siege in Sidney Street, Stepney ( Getty Images)
Sir Edward Elgar (From Spirit of England: Edward Elgar in his World by Jerrold Northrop Moore, Heinemann, 1984)
Model T Fords at the factory in Trafford Park, Manchester (Private Collection/Bridgeman Art Library)
Gertrude Jekyll ( Getty Images)
Overcrowded London buses during a tube strike ( Getty Images)
George V with his wife ( Getty Images)
Kaiser Wilhelm II and President Theodore Roosevelt ( Corbis)
King Edward VII and Kaiser Wilhelm II ( Getty Images)
Henry James ( Getty Images)
Gaudier-Brzeska
Percy Wyndham-Lewis ( Getty Images)
Front cover of an issue of Blast by Percy Wyndham-Lewis (Stapleton Collection, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)
H. G. Wells with Rebecca West (Private Collection/Bridgeman Art Library)
Dr Hawley Crippen in the dock with Ethel le Neve ( Corbis)
London policemen arresting a Suffragist ( Corbis)
W. B. Yeats with his wife Georgie Hyde Lees ( Getty Images)
Sir Roger Casement (The Illustrated London News Picture Library, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)
Eamon de Valera ( Getty Images)
Les Trois Grands Ouvriers du Monde Nouveau (Collection Kharbine-Tapabor, Paris, France/Bridgeman Art Library)
Arthur Balfour and Chaim Weizmann ( Corbis)
Second section
Radclyffe Hall with Una Lady Troubridge ( Getty Images)
Margaret Wintringham and Nancy Astor ( Getty Images)
Marie Stopes (Science & Society Picture Library)
Lawrence of Arabia ( Getty Images)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( Getty Images)
Gandhi fasting as a protest against British rule in India ( Getty Images)
Max Aitken ( Getty Images)
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth ( Getty Images)
Agatha Christie ( Getty Images)
Edith and Osbert Sitwell ( Getty Images)
Nol Coward with Gertrude Stein (Science & Society Picture Library)
David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill ( Getty Images)
James Ramsay MacDonald ( Getty Images)
Stanley Baldwin ( Getty Images)
Neville Chamberlain (Science & Society Picture Library)
London slums (Science & Society Picture Library)
Basil Jellicoe ( Popperfoto)
Beatrice and Sidney Webb ( Getty Images)
Albert Einstein ( Getty Images)
Ernest Walton, Ernest Rutherford and John Cockcroft ( Getty Images)
John Maynard Keynes (Private Collection, Roger-Viollet, Paris/Bridgeman Art Library)
Poster for Ramsey MacDonalds Government of National Unity ( Getty Images)
Welwyn Garden City ( Getty Images)
Third section
Men queuing outside a London Labour Exchange (Science & Society Picture Library)
Jarrow Hunger March (Science & Society Picture Library)
Adolf Hitler ( Getty Images)
Ezra Pound ( Getty Images)
Sir Oswald Mosley (Science & Society Picture Library)
John Cowper Powys ( Corbis)
Stanley Spencer ( Getty Images)
Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury ( Getty Images)
The Rector of Stiffkey (From The Prostitutes Padre: The Story of the Notorious Rector of Stiffkey by Tom Cullen, Bodley Head, 1975)
King Edward VIII with Wallis Simpson ( Getty Images)
Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Teheran Conference (The Illustrated London News Picture Library, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy ( Corbis)
Lord Louis Mountbatten with his wife and Nehru ( Getty Images)
Riots in Calcutta ( Getty Images)
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret (Science & Society Picture Library)
The Coronation ( Getty Images)
James Watson and Francis Crick (Photograph by Barrington Brown, Camera Press, London)
Post-war family ( Getty Images)
Fourth section
Forward! Forward to Victory, Enlist now (Private Collection, Bonhams, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)
Come Lad, Slip Across and Help (Topham Picture Source, Edenbridge, Kent, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)
Will they Never Come? (Private Collection/Bridgeman Art Library)
A Battery Shelled (1919) by Percy Wyndham Lewis ( Imperial War Museum, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)
Travoys arriving with Wounded at a Dressing Station at Smol (1916) by Stanley Spencer ( Imperial War Museum, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)
We are making a New World (1918) by Paul Nash ( Imperial War Museum, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)
The Betrayal (1922) by Stanley Spencer (Collection Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland/Bridgeman Art Library/ Estate of Stanley Spencer 2005. All Rights Reserved, DACS)
The Gold Jug (1937) by William Nicholson (The Royal CollectionHM Queen Elizabeth II/Reproduced by permission of Elizabeth Banks)
Domestic appliances (Science & Society Picture Library)
Poster advertising the British Empire Exhibition, 1924, No. P30 from the Scenes of Empire series, by Gerald Spenser Pryse ( Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, 1965/Bridgeman Art Library)
Poster advertising the Pageant of Empire, Wembley, 1924, by Gerald Spencer Pryse (Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)
Guernica (1937) by Pablo Picasso (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain/Bridgeman Art Library/ Succession Picasso/DACS 2005)
Recruiting poster for the Spanish Civil War (Bibliothque Nationale, Paris, France, Archives Charmet/Bridgeman Art Library)
Poster advertising the Festival of Britain ( Museum of London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library)
Poster advertising the Exhibition of Science, part of the Festival of Britain, by Robin Day (Private Collection, The Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman Art Library)
Festival of Britain weather vane (
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