The Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities 1945-1950
, by Barnett, Correlli- ISBN: 9780330346399 | 0330346393
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/1/2001
On July 26, Clement Attlee became Prime Minister. The British looked forward to the New Jerusalem that Labour had promised. In this brilliant, savage and original book, Correlli Barnett shows the enormous double cost of New Jerusalem, and points out the destructive contradictions between mistaken strategies and their consequences.