TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peter Clarke
AU  - CLARKE (Peter)
TI  - Last Thousand Days of the British Empire
U1  - 941.0854 23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Allen Lane - Penguin
KW  - Colonialism and  Post-Colonialism
KW  - Decolonization -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
KW  -  United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953
KW  -  Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-1964
N2  - 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
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