Norman Davis has to be a pretty brave historian, to stand and portray histories of the defeated and obliterated is not an easy task. To read about how some nations failed is very interesting and very a real possibility which has to be considered, especially by the relatively new nations of the world as the older nations seem to have given up the nationality model when adopting European Union.
So why do some nations fail while others prosper? Five reasons according to the author, implosion, conquest, merger, liquidation and infant mortality.
The book is too academic for someone like me who is a huge fan of the narrative history genre, which basically is eastern style myths juxtaposed with Western fact gathering tradition.
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