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Sto caricando le informazioni... Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexitdi Philip Stephens
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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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Anthony Eden is misadventure leads onto the decline of British power and the reasons behind it. This makes for interesting reading and highlights the problem of British over reach, exceptionalism, and harking back to the golden age that never really existed. It’s quite possible that the author was extremely pro EU, but this makes for very well balanced and interesting arguments. ( )