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Author:
Stephens, Philip, author.
Title:
Britain alone : the path from Suez to Brexit / Philip Stephens.
Publisher:
Faber & Faber,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xv, 464 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Subject:
Great Britain--Foreign relations--1945-
Great Britain--Politics and government--1945-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-425) and index.
Contents:
Broken dreams -- Greeks and Romans -- A thousand years of history -- A very British bomb -- Power and the pound -- Missed chances -- Cold warrior -- The road to Bruges -- The bastards -- Back to the desert -- Fog in the Channel -- Alone -- Afterword: the search resumes.
Summary:
In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new role. Nearly sixty years later the rebuke rings true again. Britain's postwar search for its place in the world has vexed prime ministers and government since the nation's great victory in 1945: the cost of winning the war was giving up the empire. After the humiliation of Anthony Eden's Suez expedition, Britain seemed for a time to have found an answer. Clinging to its self-image as a great island nation, it would serve as America's best friend while acknowledging its geography by signing up to membership of the European Union. Never a comfortable balancing act, for forty years it appeared to work. In 2016 David Cameron called the Brexit referendum and blew it up. Award-winning journalist Philip Stephens paints a fascinating portrait of a nation struggling to reconcile its waning power with past glory. Drawing on decades of personal contact and interviews with senior politicians and diplomats in Britain, the United States and across the capitals of Europe, Britain Alone is a vivid account of a proud nation struggling to admit it is no longer a great power. It is an indispensable guide to how we arrived at the state we are in.
ISBN:
9780571341771
0571341772
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1128395526
Locations:
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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