Britain alone : the path from Suez to Brexit /
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...
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London :
Faber & Faber,
[2021]
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Table of 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.