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The historian Correlli Barnett places britain's decline since the Second World War in perspective. basing his analysis on government records, he shows that Britain's wartime performance, far from marking a suprememe achievement of national genius and effort, was in reality characterised by all the classic symptoms of the 'British disease'. By the time they took the bunting down from the streets after VE-Day and turned from the war to the future, the British in their dreams and illusions and in their flinching from reality had already writtn the scenario for Britain's post-war descent.