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The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana Paperback – 1 Jun. 2009

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Hitchens identifies everything that he feels has gone wrong with Britain since the Second World War and makes the case for the many millions who feel that they have become foreigners in their own land and wish with each succeeding day that they could turn the clock back'. Writing with brilliance and flair, Hitchens targets the pernicious effects of TV culture, the corruption and decay of English language, the loss of deference and the syrupy confessional mood brought on by the death of Princess Diana. This new paperback edition includes a brand new introduction taking the story up to the present day. This is a cri de coeur from an honest, intelligent and patriotic Englishman desperately worried about the corruption of this country and the likely effects of its lurch into the clutches of a European.' The Spectator

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336 pages
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English
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Bloomsbury Continuum
Publication date

1 Jun. 2009
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15.8 x 2.5 x 23.2 cm
ISBN-10

1847065228
ISBN-13

978-1847065223
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About the Author

Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. A reporter for the Daily Express for most of his career, he currently writes for the Mail on Sunday.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Continuum; Revised ed. edition (1 Jun. 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1847065228
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1847065223
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.8 x 2.5 x 23.2 cm

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kealyc

Young people need to read this. So do their parents.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2018

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Very well reasearched, written by somebody who obviously cares about his country. His evaluation of the UK's adoption of american values is spot-on. Just because the USA and the UK both speak English, does not make us both the same. His evaluation of the effects of television are excellent, and make me glad I don't have a TV set. I'm not a Christian myself, but I would also urge Christians to read this book. Dismissing Hitchens as some slightly annoyed old Tory who can't get his head round the fact that we've moved on is a major mistake that his critics would love readers to make.

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Roseday

An elegy for Britain

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 September 2018

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If you care about your country and wonder what has happened to it, you should read this book. It is very true, and very well expressed. History will not be taught this way in schools so young people should read it. Old people like myself will have observed the decline of our once-great country for ourselves. Peter Hitchens seems to have given up on Britain but I still have hope that while such able people are pointing out the truth we will be able to rise again, if the spirit of Britain has not yet died.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 November 2015

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Brilliant well thought out book by a journalist of exquisite class and experience. An inspiration !

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prich230

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 August 2018

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a great eye opening read

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Scar GT

The depressing reality

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 October 2018

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A depressingly accurate book, if only we'd listened when he first wrote it.

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Mrs. Oriel G. Bayliss

The Abolition of Britain

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another excellent book by Peter Hitchens. As usual he hits the nail on the head, even though it charts the downward spiral of the state of Britain, from the 1960''s onwards. It's a very informative book for anyone interested in the state Britain is in now.

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Greg

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Hitchens at his best. If you're only going to read one, read this one: but it will lead you to the rest.

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Graham

Not for the faint of heart

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I have admired Hitchens for a long time, mainly through his blog and weekly column for 'The Daily Mail'. He is one of the very few authentically conservative social and political commentators writing in Britain today, having long since set his face against the prevaling liberal-fascist orthodoxy which thinks that it can legislate and spend its way to a utopia in which there will be the abolition of human suffering. Perhaps this is why the author wrote in 2008 of the enormous difficulty he had experienced in getting it published and into bookshops.

This book makes for interesting but chastening reading as its author charts the profound social, economic and political decline of a once great people over the space of a single generation. It is to be considered essential reading for those of a conservative outlook because it reveals just how far to the left the traditional political parties have drifted, to the point where is de facto no conservative party left. No where is this more evident, in my view, than in the field of education in which successive Conservative governments failed to redress the Labour 'reforms' of the Seventies.

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