Review of Peter Clarke, Last Thousand Days of the British Empire

The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire (Allen Lane, 2007), Volume 21, Issue 2 (2008), Cambridge Review of International Affairs.

"The British Empire, according to Peter Clarke, made Britain a great power. It was also a major cause of the Second World War, in that its magnificence tempted other powers to attack it, and Britain fought the resulting 'unsuccessful imperialist war' (xvii) for the Empire. The architect of this defeat, which left the British people feeling cheated by the fall, was Winston Churchill. Churchill, so the narrative goes, deluded both himself and his people into trusting the United States (US), which was in reality fighting the war to bring the Empire to an end and to enlist it as a 'yes-man' in a new American empire. This is an angry and unbalanced book. . . ."

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