The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire by Peter Clarke Allen Lane, Gbp25

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THE "thousand days" on which Peter Clarke hangs his ambitious history is a stretch from the summer of 1944 until August 1947 when India, the so-called "jewel of the empire", broke up into India and Pakistan. At which point, Clarke argues, the imperial game was up - even though the empire took another few decades to die, and some people are still squabbling over the remains.

But Clarke makes it clear that the six, long, weary years of the second world war did much to undo the British empire.

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The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire by Peter Clarke Allen Lane, Gbp25

Britain emerged from the victory celebrations to find itself industrially exhausted, badly damaged and in hock to the Americans. It was faced with the task of pacify...

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