How did Britain decline? A.N. Wilson goes in search of an answer\nin his masterly follow-up to his bestsellingThe Victorians. InThe\nVictorians, the author told the story of Great Britain in her\npre-eminence. It ended with Britain as the mightiest, richest\nnation on earth, possessed of a huge empire. That book, however, is\nfull of forebodings and harbingers of disaster. This follow-up book\nis the story of the decline of Britain — and with it, the decline\nof many of the things that Victorian Britain stood for.\nFurthermore, Wilson will show, the seeds of its undoing had been\nthere from the beginning. As inThe Victorians, this book has a\npanoramic sweep, building up a portrait of the age — the Communist\nRevolution, two world wars, the Spanish Civil War, and the\nunstoppable growth of America as a dominant world power and the\nbeginnings of the Cold War. This is the era in which Britain was\nsidelined from its importance in world politics. Alongside this is\nthe story of the beginnings of Modernism in art and music, and\nradical new philosophical systems of thought. A.N. Wilson visits\nthe novelists, the philosophers, the poets and the painters to see\nwhat light they threw on the activities of the politicians, the\nscientists and the generals. Putting together military, political,\nsocial and cultural history,After the Victorianscreates a panoramic\nview of the era, and skillfully identifies the sources and causes\nof Britain’s decline. From the Hardcover edition.

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