How long does it take to read The Collapse of British Power?
Correlli Barnett
The Collapse of British Power by Correlli Barnett takes about 11 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 47 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1972. 643 pages, about 176,825 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"'The summer of 1940 marked the consummation of an astonishing decline in British fortunes. The British invested their feebleness and isolation with a romantic glamour - they saw themselves as latter-day Spartans, under their own Leonidas, holding the pass for the civlised world. In fact, it was a sorry and contemptible plight for a great power, and it derived neither from bad luck, nor from the failures of others. It had been brought down upon the British by themselves.' Once...the British were thoroughly hard-nosed and aggressive about foreign plicy, but with Wellington's victory at Waterloo, there appeared the first signs of a moral change that was to leave them fatally unprepared to meet the challenges of the determined imperialists guiding other nations in the twentieth century."--Taken from book jacket flap.
Subjects: Politics and government, British National characteristics, Commonwealth of Nations, National characteristics, British, Commonwealth (Organization), National characteristics, English
