{"product_id":"the-last-thousand-days-of-the-british-empire-churchill-roosevelt-and-the-birth-of-the-pax-americana-9781596915312","title":"The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill  Roosevelt  and the Birth of the Pax Americana","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sweeping  brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British Empire and the moment when America became a world superpowerpublished on the sixtieth anniversary of Britains withdrawal from Palestine. \"I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.\" Winston Churchills 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 alliesand won. Yet less than five years after Churchills 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 Britains empire  the age of America as world superpower dawned. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarkes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646788886581,"sku":"ByrdShop_1596915315","price":22.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781596915312.jpg?v=1781678485","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-last-thousand-days-of-the-british-empire-churchill-roosevelt-and-the-birth-of-the-pax-americana-9781596915312","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}