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A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower.'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 world-wide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide 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 swiftly 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-know

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Author

Peter Frederick Clarke

Publisher

New York: Bloomsbury Press: Distributed to the trade by Macmillan

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781596915312

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, History

Rating

3.74 / 5 (85 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14