01516nam a22002297a 4500 20220505124312.0 220505b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d AL English 23 941.0854 CLAL Peter Clarke 34124 Last Thousand Days of the British Empire London Allen Lane - Penguin 2007 xxvii,560 p. HB 24x16 cm. Peter 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. Colonialism and Post-Colonialism 34125 Decolonization -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century 34126 United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953 34127 Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-1964 34128 CLARKE (Peter) 34129 ddc GF 222790 222790 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 941.0854 CLAL GF03086 2022-05-05 00:00:00 2022-05-05 GF