At the end of World War II, most people in Britain and elsewhere seem to have assumed that the British Empire would endure for a very long time to come. Yet wit... » 

At the end of World War II, most people in Britain and elsewhere seem to have assumed that the British Empire would endure for a very long time to come. Yet within 20 years British power and influence had been enormously reduced. This book studies the causes and course of the process. «