Download or read book Liquidation of Empire written by Roy Douglas and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, Britain emerged as one of the Big Three victors 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.