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041			_aEnglish
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100			_aPeter Clarke _934124
245			_aLast Thousand Days of the British Empire
260			_aLondon _bAllen Lane - Penguin _c2007
300			_axxvii,560 p. _bHB _c24x16 cm.
520			_aPeter Clarke's book is the first to analyse in detail the losing hand that Britain was dealt in the last year of World War Two, and then to see how that hand was played over the next two years by Churchill's successors. It makes superb use of the copious letters and diaries now available of the major participants and many involved observers, to show how decisions were taken and received. Not least, it analyses dispassionately the role of the USA: 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. The book thus also describes the short pivotal period when American influence finally took over from the British in world politics.
650			_aColonialism and Post-Colonialism _934125
650			_aDecolonization -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century _934126
650			_a United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1953 _934127
650			_a Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1945-1964 _934128
700			_aCLARKE (Peter) _934129
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