{"product_id":"iron-britannia","title":"Iron Britannia","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 2 April 1982 Argentine forces seized the British-dependent Falkland Islands. Within 48 hours a British task force sailed for the South Atlantic. One in five Britons opposed this war; but Argentina's surrender 74 days later assured Margaret Thatcher's re-election. \u003ci\u003eIron Britannia\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1982, peered through 'the fog of war' to diagnose something rotten in the British state. This 2012 edition offers a new preface by Anthony Barnett, dissecting post-Falklands UK foreign policy.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Barnett makes a variety of telling points... [especially] the concept he puts forward of 'Churchillism', the rhetoric of national unity which overrides party and class considerations.' Geoffrey Wheatcroft, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   'A furious, sometimes gleeful and often witty polemic against the decaying British political system which the conflict revealed.' Neal Ascherson, \u003ci\u003eLondon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54263258972504,"sku":"9780571290666","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571290666.jpg?v=1778906766","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/iron-britannia","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}