About the Author

Peter Clarke was Professor of Modern History and Master of Trinity Hall at Cambridge. His many books include the acclaimed final volume of the Penguin History of Britain, Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000, and A Question of Leadership: Gladstone to Blair. He lives in Suffolk, England, and Pender Island, British Columbia.

Reviews

"[A] sharp new history...His description of Churchill's correspondence with Roosevelt is almost moving in its pathos." --New York Times Book Review "Peter Clarke's learned and elegant new character-driven history [reminds] us how sudden Britain's fall from empire truly was." --New York Sun