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Item specifics
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- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition, Illustrated
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781596915312
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1596915315
ISBN-13
9781596915312
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63130995
Product Key Features
Book Title
Last Thousand Days of the British Empire : Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Imperialism, International Relations / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Historical, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
35 oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-036929
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
909/.09712410824
Synopsis
A sweeping history of the sudden end of the British Empire and the moment when America became a world superpower, this work shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself., 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 not 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-known 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 not; 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., 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 not 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-known 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 not; 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.
LC Classification Number
DA16.C56 2008
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