Depression and Dictators

Spectator, The; London › October 01, 2009

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Depression and Dictators

The Morbid Age

by Richard Overy

Penguin, £25, pp. 499,

ISBN 9780713995633

£20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655

For Professor Overy Britain between the two world wars was, as his title proclaims, a morbid age. There was a general view among intellectuals that civilisation - itself a creation of intellectuals - was...

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