01419nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001704000070005804100120006508200230007710000170010024500450011726000390016230000320020152007360023365000380096965000750100765000530108265000590113570000190119420220505124312.0220505b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  cAL  aEnglish  223a941.0854bCLAL  aPeter Clarke  aLast Thousand Days of the British Empire  aLondonbAllen Lane - Penguinc2007  axxvii,560 p.bHBc24x16 cm.  aPeter Clarke's book is the first to analyse in detail the losing hand that Britain was dealt in the last year of World War Two, and then to see how that hand was played over the next two years by Churchill's successors. It makes superb use of the copious letters and diaries now available of the major participants and many involved observers, to show how decisions were taken and received. Not least, it analyses dispassionately the role of the USA: how Roosevelt and his successors were determined that Britain must be sustained both during the war and after, but that the British Empire must not. The book thus also describes the short pivotal period when American influence finally took over from the British in world politics.  aColonialism and  Post-Colonialism  aDecolonization -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century  a United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953  a Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-1964  aCLARKE (Peter)