What We Have Lost - The Dismantling of Great Britain Hamilton-Paterson JamesPaperback / softback
'Exquisitely written and ripe with detail'Sunday Times. 'An engaging book ... He knows his British stuff'The Times. 'One of England's most skilled and alluring prose writers in or out of fiction, has…
Specifikacia What We Have Lost - The Dismantling of Great Britain Hamilton-Paterson JamesPaperback / softback
'Exquisitely written and ripe with detail'Sunday Times. 'An engaging book ... He knows his British stuff'The Times. 'One of England's most skilled and alluring prose writers in or out of fiction, has done something even more original'London Review of Books.WHAT WE HAVE LOST IS A MISSILE AIMED AT THEBRITISH ESTABLISHMENT, A BLISTERING INDICTMENTOF POLITICIANS AND CIVIL SERVANTS, PLANNINGAUTHORITIES AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, WHO HAVEPRESIDED, SINCE 1945, OVER THE DECLINE OF BRITAIN'SINDUSTRIES AND REPLACED THE 'GREAT' IN BRITAIN WITHA FOR SALE SIGN HUNG AROUND THE NECK OF THE NATION.Between 1939 and 1945, Britain produced around 125,000 aircraft, and enormous numbers of ships, motor vehicles, armaments and textiles. We developed radar, antibiotics, the jet engine and the computer.