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    The Twilight Years

    The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars

    Author Richard Overy
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    On sale Nov 30, 2010 | 544 Pages | 9780143118114
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    "Thought-provoking and illuminating...Overy's study of British culture between the wars is absorbing and unexpectedly moving."
    -The New York Times Book Review

    Original, entertaining, and ever-surprising, The Twilight Years tells the story of how an abiding fear of war influenced English life in the aftermath of World War I. Britain had become a laboratory for modern thought and experimentations, from eugenics to Freud's unconscious. And drawing upon these innovative ideas and concepts, intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists-among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H.G. Wells-grappled with a creeping fear that the West was staring down the end of civilization. The Twilight Years speaks to the frightening power of ideas in a rapidly changing world.
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    RICHARD OVERY has written and edited more than thirty books, including Why the Allies Won, Russia’s War, The Twilight Years, 1939, and The Bombers and the Bombed. He is a professor of history at the University of Exeter, U.K. View titles by Richard Overy
    "Thought-provoking and illuminating...Overy's study of British culture between the wars is absorbing and unexpectedly moving."  -The New York Times Book Review

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    "Thought-provoking and illuminating...Overy's study of British culture between the wars is absorbing and unexpectedly moving."
    -The New York Times Book Review

    Original, entertaining, and ever-surprising, The Twilight Years tells the story of how an abiding fear of war influenced English life in the aftermath of World War I. Britain had become a laboratory for modern thought and experimentations, from eugenics to Freud's unconscious. And drawing upon these innovative ideas and concepts, intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists-among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H.G. Wells-grappled with a creeping fear that the West was staring down the end of civilization. The Twilight Years speaks to the frightening power of ideas in a rapidly changing world.

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    RICHARD OVERY has written and edited more than thirty books, including Why the Allies Won, Russia’s War, The Twilight Years, 1939, and The Bombers and the Bombed. He is a professor of history at the University of Exeter, U.K. View titles by Richard Overy

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    "Thought-provoking and illuminating...Overy's study of British culture between the wars is absorbing and unexpectedly moving."  -The New York Times Book Review

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