Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Notice

List of Illustrations

Foreword and Acknowledgements

1 Oedipus Rex, Oedipus Kaiser

2 Rupees and Virgins

3 The Land

4 The Accursed Power

5 Love in the Suburbs

6 God – and the Americans

7 Nationalisms

8 Shipwreck

9 An Asiatic Power

10 Barbarous Kings

11 Revolutions

12 Chief

13 Peace

14 Protons – Massacres – Bombs. Ireland and Iraq

15 Communists and Fascism – The Allure of Violence

16 The Silly Generation – From Oswald Spengler to Noël Coward

17 The Means of Grace and the Hope of Glory

18 The Secrets of a Woman’s Heart – Marie Stopes, Radclyffe Hall

19 For the Benefit of Empire

20 The ABC of Economics

21 Puzzles and Pastoral

22 Two Thousand Whispered Voices

23 Politics

24 The Abdication

25 The European Crisis

26 The Special Relationship I

27 Churchill in 1940

28 From the Battle of Britain to Pearl Harbor

29 Bombers and the Bombed

30 In the Broadcast

31 The Special Relationship II

32 Prisoners 45°

33 If God Wearied of Mankind

34 Retributions

35 The End of the British Empire – India and Palestine

36 Widmerpool’s Britain

37 The Hereditary Principle

Notes

Bibliography

Index

PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

About the Author

Also by A. N. Wilson

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