Alan Clark, diary entry (25 August 1972), quoted in Alan Clark, Diaries: Into Politics, 1972–1982, ed. Ion Trewin (2000), p. 11
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Depressed, shaken by Correlli Barnett's The Collapse of British Power.
— Alan Clark
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About Correlli Barnett
Correlli Douglas Barnett (28 June 1927 – 10 July 2022) was an English military historian, who also wrote works of economic history, particularly on the United Kingdom's post-war "industrial decline".
About Correlli Barnett
Correlli Douglas Barnett (28 June 1927 – 10 July 2022) was an English military historian, who also wrote works of economic history, particularly on the United Kingdom's post-war "industrial decline".
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