Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Imperial endgame :

Grob-Fitzgibbon, Benjamin John.

Imperial endgame : Britain's dirty wars and the end of empire / Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - 1 v. 478pp ; 24 cm.

Prologue PART I: THE ATTLEE YEARS, JULY 27, 1945 - OCTOBER 26, 1951 A Promised Land, but to Whom? The American Intervention The Terror Begins Again The End of Compromise Into the Abyss The Endgame in Palestine Trouble Comes to Malaya The Appointment of Sir Harold Briggs The Special Air Service, the Briggs Plan, and Progress in Malaya The End of the Attlee Years PART II: THE CHURCHILL YEARS, OCTOBER 26, 1951 - APRIL 6, 1955 A New Government, a New Approach The Carrot and the Stick The Challenge of Mau Mau The General's Stamp in Malaya 'The Horned Shadow of the Devil Himself' Dirty Wars, Dirty Deeds A Fresh Start in Kenya? The End of the Churchill Years PART III: THE EDEN YEARS, APRIL 7, 1955 - JANUARY 10, 1957 Problems in Paradise Templer's Return The Dirty Wars become Dirtier Suez The Endgame for Anthony Eden Epilogue: The Imperial Endgame after Eden Notes Bibliography Index

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Decolonization--Colonies--History--Great Britain--20th century.


Great Britain--Colonies--History--20th century.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--20th century.

DA16. / G76

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