Author:
Clarke, P. F.
Edition Statement:1st U.S. paperback ed.
Imprint:New York : Bloomsbury Press : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2009, c2008.
Descriptionxxvii, 559 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Note:1: Broad, sunlit uplands -- Prologue : 1941-4 -- 2: False summits -- The spirit of Quebec : September 1944 -- Setbacks : October-November 1944 -- Bad to worse : November-December 1944 -- Battles of the bulge : December 1944-January 1945 -- Awaiting the big three : January-February 1945 -- Yalta : February 1945 -- 3: Hollow victories -- Faltering and altering : February-March 1945 -- Shadows of death : March-April 1945 -- Justice? / May 1945 -- Peace, politics and Potsdam / June-July 1945 -- 4: The liquidation of the British Empire -- Hopes betrayed : August-October 1945 -- The costs of victory : October 1945-April 1946 -- Sabotage? : April-November 1946 -- Scuttle? : December 1946-August 1947.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (P. 516-545) and index.
Note:"'I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.' So declared Winston Churchill in 1942, as Britain waged a vast global conflict for its survival. Less than five years later, the conflict was won -- yet with Indian Independence in 1947 and Britain's departure from Palestine in 1948, the sun had set on the British Empire. In the space of a thousand days, a new age dawned, as America took over the role of world superpower. Peter Clarke's swiftly paced narrative draws on letters, diaries, and a host of other primary sources to put us vividly in the presence of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Ghandi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and other, lesser-known individuals, through whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events." ---back cover
