The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation

Correlli Barnett is one of Britain's best-known historians. A Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and The Royal Historical Society, he was Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre at Churchill College, Cambridge and has written many acclaimed books. These include his first, The Desert Generals, which challenged the myth of Montgomery and show more El Alamein, biographies of Marlborough an Bonaparte, The Swordbearers: Supreme Command in the First World War, Engage the Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the second World War and The Pride and Fall Sequence: The Collapse of British Power. The Audit of War, The Verdict of Peace and the Lost Victory. show less