World after the War  -  Derek Leebaert

America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957

KORTE INHOUD

One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embraced its worldwide political and military commitments. Instead the two allies improvised an uneasy, shifting partnership for twelve long years while most of western Europe lay in turmoil and Russia grew more aggressive. But in 1957 Washington issued a declaration of independence from British authority. It was then that everything changed, and America assumed leader...
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2020 Uitgever: Oneworld Publications 624 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1786077280 ISBN-13: 9781786077288