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

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A sweeping vivid history capturing the sudden end of Britains empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his alliesand won. Yet less than three years after victory the British Empire effectively ended and the age of America as world superpower dawned. Peter Clarkes book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swiftly paced narrative offers vivid portraits of pivotal figures like Churchill Gandhi Truman and Stalin. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire shows how events that followed the war reshaped the world as much as the conflict itself.