BARCZEWSKI, STEPHANIE — Heroic failure and the British

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2016 (1st ed.); 8vo (24cm), x+267pp., black-white illustrations, endnotes, archival sources and bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. As new. Rare in NL. ¶ l Author \"shows that the commemoration of heroic failure as the twentieth century progressed came to serve as a metaphor, and sometimes as an explanation, for British decline.\" (blurb)