Profile of Correlli Barnett on Famous Like Me

Correlli Barnett (born June 28, 1927 in Norbury, Surrey) is an English military historian, who has written also on the United Kingdom's industrial decline.

He is the author of The Desert Generals, a book that attacked the perceived cult of British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. It gave the viewpoints of his sacked predecessors as commanders in the North Africa campaign.

Barnett's The Pride and Fall sequence

• The Collapse of British Power
• The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation
• The Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities, 1945-50
• The Verdict of Peace: Britain Between Her Yesterday and the Future

are perhaps his best known books. They describe the decline of British power during the twentieth century caused ultimately, Barnett argues, from a mutation of values in England's governing élite from the late eighteenth century encouraged by evangelical and non-conformist Christianity. He has been criticised for being overly-negative of Britain's war effort, over-emphasising production inefficiencies in the face of overall British victory.

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