A brilliant study of the sudden rise of a barren and isolated country to be the greatest power on earth, and of its equally sudden decline.
- ISBN10 0140210431
- ISBN13 9780140210439
- Publish Date 25 June 1970 (first published 1 January 1963)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 April 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 424
- Language English