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The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation. By Correlli Barnett. London: Macmillan, 1986. Pp. xii + 359. £14.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

John Stevenson
John Stevenson
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University of Sheffield
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The Historical Journal , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , June 1987 , pp. 504 - 508
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References

1 See Pollard, S., The development of the British economy, 1914–1950 (London, 1962), pp. 318ffGoogle Scholar. and Calder, A., The people's war: Britain, 1939–45 (London, 1969), ch. 7Google Scholar.

2 Glynn, S. and Oxborrow, S., Interwar Britain: a social and economic history (London, 1976), p. 21Google Scholar.

3 Floud, R. and McCloskey, D. (eds.), The economic history of Britain since 1700, vol.II (Cambridge, 1981), 301–3Google Scholar.

4 For example, the titles by Floud and McCloskey, Glynn and Oxborrow, and Pollard, cited above; perhaps most striking is the absence of Milward, A. S., War, economy and society, 1939–1945 (London, 1977)Google Scholar.

5 Wiener, M. J., English culture and the decline of the industrial spirit, 1850–1980 (Cambridge, 1981)Google Scholar.

6 Addison, P., The road to 1945 (London, 1975)Google Scholar.

7 See Stevenson, J., ‘“Planners' Moon?” The Second World War and the planning movement in Britain’, in Smith, H. (ed.), War and social change (Manchester, 1987)Google Scholar, forthcoming.