his essay "A Predator Becomes More Dangerous Once Wounded". Private life In 1950, Barnett married Ruth Murby. The couple had two daughters. Ruth died in 2020. Barnett died on 10 July 2022 at the age of 95 in East Carleton in Norfolk. Writings Books The Hump Organisation (1957) The Channel Tunnel (with Humphrey Slater, 1958) The Desert Generals (Kimber, 1960). A study of O'Connor, Alan Cunningham, Ritchie, Auchinleck and Montgomery. The Swordbearers: Supreme Command in the First World War (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963). A study of Moltke, Jellicoe, Pétain and Ludendorff. The Battle of El Alamein (Macmillan, 1964) Britain and Her Army, 1509–1970 (Allen Lane, 1970) The Collapse of British Power (Eyre Methuen, 1972) The First Churchill: Marlborough, Soldier and Statesman (Eyre Methuen, 1974). An accompanying television programme was made. Strategy and Society (Manchester University Press, 1976) Human Factor and British Industrial Decline: An Historical Perspective (Working Together Campaign, 1977) Bonaparte (Allen & Unwin, 1978) The Great War (Park Lane Press, 1979) The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation (Macmillan, 1986) US edition: The Pride and the Fall: The Dream and Illusion of Britain as a Great Nation (The Free Press, 1987) Engage the Enemy More Closely: The Royal Navy in the Second World War (W W Norton & Co Inc, 1991) The Lost Victory: British Dreams and British Realities, 1945-50 (Macmillan, 1995) The Verdict of Peace: Britain between her Yesterday and the Future (Macmillan, 2001) Post-conquest Civil Affairs: Comparing War's End in Iraq and in Germany (Foreign Policy Centre, 2005) Pétain (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005) Essays 'The New Military Balance', The History of the Twentieth Century, 24 (1968). 'The Guilt: The Illogical Promise', in G. A. Panichas (ed.), Promise of Greatness. The War of 1914-1918 (Littlehampton Book Services, 1968), pp. 560–572. 'The Education of Military Elites', in Rupert Wilkinson (ed.), Governing Elites: Studies in Training and Selection (Oxford University Press, 1964). 'Offensive 1918', in Noble Frankland and Christopher Dowling (eds.), Decisive Battles of the Twentieth Century (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976), pp. 62–80. 'Auchinleck', in Michael Carver (ed.), The War Lords. Military Commanders of the Twentieth Century (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976), pp. 260–273. 'Technology, Education and Industrial and Economic Strength, Education for Capability: Cantor Lecture 1, 13 November 1978', Journal of The Royal Society of Arts, cxxvii (5271), pp. 117–130. 'The Long Term Industrial Performance in the United Kingdom: The Role of