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The National Debt Teens25 or pressed this buttonA New Statesman Book of the Year A Financial Times Summer Read While it is central to today's politics, few people fully understand the National Debt and its role in shaping the course of British history. Without it, Britain would not have gained and lost two empires, nor won its wars against France and Germany. But Britain has also been moulded by attempts to break free of the Debt, from postwar Keynesian economics to today's austerity. Martin Slater