Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit

✍ Scribed by Philip Stephens

Publisher: Faber & Faber
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In 1962, the US Secretary of State observed that post-war Britain had 'lost an empire and not yet found a role'. His gentle rebuke still rings true. Britain, clinging to its self-image as great island nation with a penchant for lofty exceptionalism, has trod a lonely path between engagement with Europe and a treasured but often demeaning 'special relationship' with the US, culminating in the current Brexit crisis.

From wartime victory in 1945 to Anthony Eden's ill-judged foray in Suez - which strained American relations almost to breaking point - to David Cameron's EU referendum, award-winning journalist Philip Stephens paints a fascinating portrait of a nation attempting to reconcile its waning power with past glories. Drawing on exclusive interviews with senior politicians and diplomats as well as original government papers, Britain Alone is a vivid, intimate account of an island both isolated and European in its geography, yet global in its outlook; and of a nation struggling to reconcile its straitened international circumstances with its nostalgic identity. Above all, it is an indispensable guide to how we arrived at the state we're in.

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