A magisterial and profoundly perceptive survey of Britain's post-war role on the global stage, from Suez to Brexit. How might we celebrate Britain's undoubted strengths while accepting that we have slipped from the top table? How can we act as a great nation while no longer pretending to be a great power? How might we be European and global? In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new role. Nearly sixty years later the rebuke rings true again. Britain's postwar search for its place in the world has vexed prime mini Britain Alone - Philip Stephens od authora Philip Stephens a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.