The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana
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.Clarke traces the intimate and conflicted nature of the “special relationship,” showing...
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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.Clarke traces the intimate and conflicted nature of the “special relationship,” showing how Roosevelt and his successors were determined that Britain must be sustaine
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781596915312 (1596915315)
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English