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Last Thousand Days of the British Empire, The * hb

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Author: Peter Clarke

Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana

Briefly revelling in victory in 1945, Great Britain was soon compelled to begin dismantling its empire. Decolonization in India and Palestine constitutes the focal point in Clarke's insightful account. This book analyzes the abrupt transition from
Rule Britannia to Pax Americana and offers vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted -Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of others.

Bloomsbury, 2008; 560 pp.; EN; hb

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Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his allies—and won. Yet less than three years after victory, the British Empire effectively ended, and the age of America as world superpower dawned. Peter Clarke’s book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swiftly paced narrative offers vivid portraits of pivotal figures like Churchill, Gandhi, Truman, and Stalin. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire shows how events that followed the war reshaped the world as much as the conflict itself.