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

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

by Peter Clarke

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... (read more)

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