The last thousand days of the British empire Churchill, Roosevelt, and the birth of the Pax Americana
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 allies--and won. Yet less than three years after victory, the British Empire effectively ende...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The last thousand days of the British empire |b Churchill, Roosevelt, and the birth of the Pax Americana |c Peter Clarke |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York |b Bloomsbury Press |c [2008] | |
| 264 | 2 | |b Distributed to the trade by Macmillan | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2008 | |
| 300 | |a xxvii, 559 pages, [16] pages of plates |b illustrations, maps |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1: Broad, sunlit uplands -- Prologue : 1941-4 -- 2: False summits -- The spirit of Quebec : September 1944 -- Setbacks : October-November 1944 -- Bad to worse : November-December 1944 -- Battles of the bulge : December 1944-January 1945 -- Awaiting the big three : January-February 1945 -- Yalta : February 1945 -- 3: Hollow victories -- Faltering and altering : February-March 1945 -- Shadows of death : March-April 1945 -- Justice? / May 1945 -- Peace, politics and Potsdam / June-July 1945 -- 4: The liquidation of the British Empire -- Hopes betrayed : August-October 1945 -- The costs of victory : October 1945-April 1946 -- Sabotage? : April-November 1946 -- Scuttle? : December 1946-August 1947. | |
| 520 | |a 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 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. | ||
| 592 | |b 13/04/2015 |c Hadiah & Sumbangan |h Mej. Iskandar W. Crafter | ||
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| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Foreign relations |y 1945-1953 | |
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