Cold War Britain 1945-1964: New Perspectives

Cold War History

by Michael F. Hopkins (Editor), Michael D. Kadiah (Editor), Gillian Staerck (Editor)

Cold War Britain 1945-1964 offers new perspectives on ways in which Britain fought the Cold War, and illuminates key areas of the policy formulation process. It argues that in many ways Britain and the US perceived and handled the threat posed by the Communist bloc in similar terms: nevertheless, Britain's continuing global commitments, postwar economic problems and domestic considerations obliged her on occasion to tackle the threat rather differently.

253 pages, Hardcover

First published December 13, 2002

About the author

Michael Hopkins is Senior Lecturer in American Foreign Policy at the University of Liverpool.