The Lion and the Unicorn: A Historian's Testament

367 pp. A personal history of twentieth-century England. "With eloquence and perception, Sir Arthur recalls the quiet beauty of a still unspoiled countryside; the ardors, endurances, and dramatic changes of the war years; the ambitious, yet often shattered hopes of the post-war era; and the landscape, buildings, institutions, and traditions which are the living witnesses to Britain's past and the key to her future. But above all, he has succeeded in capturing the unique dichotomy of the English character, that indomitable mixture of the noble and the eccentric, the Saxon and the Celt--the lion and the Unicorn."