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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New York
Bloomsbury Press
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.