A blistering assessment of the West's abandonment of history as it succumbs to an attack of social and cultural dementia, by leading historian David Andress.

An assessment of the West's abandonment of the lessons of history, evident in the short-sighted excesses of recent right wing populism, likened here by the "Beating Napoleon" author to cultural dementia.

[Andress] repudiates a collective failure to come to terms with the collapse of a historical bubble, when racist empire underwrote domestic achievement and granted international prestige' Guardian.