Vision Anglo-America US-UK Alliance Emerging Cold War 1943-1946 H… 9780521892841

The Vision of Anglo-AmericaThe US-UK Alliance and the Emerging Cold War, 19431946\nAuthor(s): Henry Butterfield Ryan\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521892841, 978-0521892841\nSynopsis\nThis innovative study demonstrates with great clarity the importance of the decline of British power in the creation of the Cold War. The author subjects to detailed analysis the concerted attempts made by the British wartime coalition to forge a perpetual merger with the USA in international affairs to arrest this global decline. He reveals the origins of this policy, the great efforts made towards its realisation, and the ultimate impossibility of fulfilling all of its aims. Dr Ryan uses the Polish and Greek crises of the midI940s as case histories to demonstrate his thesis that both the Churchill and Attlee governments recognised the need for the American connection and to provide examples of how they set a.