Peter Clarke

The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A sweeping, vivid history capturing the sudden end of Britain's empire and the moment when America became a world superpower.

Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his allies--and won. Yet less than three years after victory, the British Empire effectively ended, and the age of America as world superpower dawned. Peter Clarke's 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781596917422
• Artikelnr.: 38405227

Autorenporträt

Peter Clarke was formerly a professor of modern history and Master of Trinity Hall at Cambridge. His many books include Keynes: The Twentieth Century's Most Influential Economist, The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire, The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924-1936 and the acclaimed final volume of the Penguin History of Britain, Hope and Glory, Britain 1900-2000. He lives with his wife, the Canadian writer Maria Tippett, in Cambridge, England, and Pender Island, British Columbia.