TY - BOOK AU - Overy,Richard TI - The twilight years: the paradox of Britain between the wars SN - 9780670021130 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Viking KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - George V, 1910-1936 KW - George VI, 1936-1952 KW - Social life and customs KW - 1918-1945 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index (p. 474-522); Introduction: Cassandras and Jeremiahs -- Decline and fall -- The death of capitalism -- A sickness in the racial body -- Medicine and poison : psychoanalysis and social dismay -- Why war? -- Challenge to death -- Utopian politics : cure or disease? -- 'The voyage of the death ship' : war and the fate of the world -- A morbid age ER -