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Last Thousand Days of the British Empire : Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana by Peter Clarke (2008, Hardcover)
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"THE LAST THOUSAND DAYS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE: CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT, AND THE BIRTH OF THE PAX AMERICANA" by Peter Clarke. Published by Bloomsbury Press, New York. Stated First US Edition, 2008; with complete number line. 9 1/2" tall black hardback with gold print on spine. Tiny black remainder dot on bottom page edges. Price and date in pencil on ffep. Pages are tight; clean/unmarked. 560 pages. This book was purchased NEW for my store and has been on the shelf and has not been read. DJ not price clipped ($35.00). Very light bumping along edges of DJ. Minor general shelf wear to DJ. Overall this item is in As New condition. (Home BR 9/22)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-101596915315
ISBN-139781596915312
eBay Product ID (ePID)63130995
Product Key Features
Book TitleLast Thousand Days of the British Empire : Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana
Number of Pages592 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEurope / Great Britain / 20th Century, Imperialism, International Relations / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Historical, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Publication Year2008
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorPeter Clarke
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.8 in
Item Weight35 oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-036929
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal909/.09712410824
SynopsisA sweeping history of the sudden end of the British Empire and the moment when America became a world superpower, this work shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself., A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British Empire and the moment when America became a world superpower--published on the sixtieth anniversary of Britain's withdrawal from Palestine. "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to the worldwide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a global scale to defeat Hitler and his allies--and won. Yet less than five years after Churchill's defiant speech, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. As the sun set on Britain's empire, the age of America as world superpower dawned. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swift-paced narrative makes superb use of letters and diaries to provide vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of lesser-known figures through whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events. Clarke traces the intimate and conflicted nature of the "special relationship," showing 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; and reveals how the tension between Allied war aims, suppressed while the fighting was going on, became rapidly apparent when it ended. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire is a captivating work of popular history that shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself., A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British Empire and the moment when America became a world superpower--published on the sixtieth anniversary of Britain's withdrawal from Palestine. I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to the worldwide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a global scale to defeat Hitler and his allies--and won. Yet less than five years after Churchill's defiant speech, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. As the sun set on Britain's empire, the age of America as world superpower dawned. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swift-paced narrative makes superb use of letters and diaries to provide vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of lesser-known figures through whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events. Clarke traces the intimate and conflicted nature of the special relationship, showing 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; and reveals how the tension between Allied war aims, suppressed while the fighting was going on, became rapidly apparent when it ended. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire is a captivating work of popular history that shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself.
LC Classification NumberDA16.C56 2008
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