The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana

by Clarke, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781596916760
• ISBN10: 1596916761
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-19
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Press

Summary

A sweeping, vivid history capturing the sudden end of Britain's empire and the moment when America became a world superpower.Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his alliesand 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 Empireshows how events that followed the war reshaped the world as much as the conflict itself.

Author Biography

Peter Clarke was Professor of Modern History and Master of Trinity Hall at Cambridge. His many books include the acclaimed final volume of the Penguin History of Britain, Hope and Glory, Britain 1900-2000, and A Question of Leadership: Gladstone to Blair. He lives in Suffolk, England, and Pender Island, British Columbia.

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“[A] sharp new history…His description of Churchill’s correspondence with Roosevelt is almost moving in its pathos.”—New York Times Book Review

“Peter Clarke’s learned and elegant new character-driven history [reminds] us how sudden Britain’s fall from empire truly was.”—New York Sun

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