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The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana by Reader in Modern History and Fellow Peter Clarke (Hardback, 2008)

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A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British Empire and the moment when America became a world superpower published on the sixtieth anniversary of Britain's withdrawal from Palestine. I have t become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to the worldwide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a global scale to defeat Hitler and his allies and won. Yet less than five years after Churchill's defiant speech, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. As the sun set on Britain's empire, the age of America as world superpower dawned.How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swift-paced narrative makes superb use of letters and diaries to provide vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of lesser-kwn figures through whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events.Clarke traces the intimate and conflicted nature of the special relationship, showing how Roosevelt and his successors were determined that Britain must be sustained both during the war and after, but that the British Empire must t; and reveals how the tension between Allied war aims, suppressed while the fighting was going on, became rapidly apparent when it ended. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire is a captivating work of popular history that shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-10
1596915315
ISBN-13
9781596915312
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189844156

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Author
Reader in Modern History and Fellow Peter Clarke
Format
Unsewn / Adhesive Bound,PAPER over Boards,With Dust Jacket, Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Regional History
Type
Textbook

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Maps, Black & White Plates
Author Biography
Peter Clarke was professor of of modern British history and master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is the author of the final volume in the Penguin History of Britain, Hope and Glory, Britain 1900 2000. His other books include The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924 1936.
Date of Publication
13/05/2008
Country of Publication
United States

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