The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars(ISBN=9780143118114)

　　"Thought-provoking and illuminating...Overy's study of British culture between the wars is absorbing and unexpectedly moving."
　　-The New York Times Book Review
　　Original, entertaining, and ever-surprising, The Twilight Years tells the story of how an abiding fear of war influenced English life in the aftermath of World War I. Britain had become a laboratory for modern thought and experimentations, from eugenics to Freud's unconscious. And drawing upon these innovative ideas and concepts, intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists-among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H.G. Wells-grappled with a creeping fear that the West was staring down the end of civilization. The Twilight Years speaks to the frightening power of ideas in a rapidly changing world.

　　Richard Overy is professor of modern history at the University of Exeter. He is an award-winning author of numerous books, including The Dictators and Why the Allies Won. He lives in London.