In 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, Britain and
America again went to war--this time to try and combat the spread
of communism in East Asia following the invasion of South Korea by
communist forces from the North. This book charts the course of the
UK-US 'special relationship' from the journey to war beginning in
1947 to the fall of the Labour government in 1951. Ian McLaine
casts fresh light on relations between Truman and Attlee and their
officials, diplomats and advisors, including Acheson and MacArthur.
He shows how Britain was persuaded to join a war it could ill
afford and was forced to rearm at great cost to the economy. The
decision to participate in the war caused great strain to the
Labour party--provoking the Bevan-Gaitskell split which was to keep
the party out of office for the next decade. McLaine's revisionist
study shows how disastrous the war was for the British--and for the
Labour party in particular. It sheds important new light on UK-US
relations during a key era in diplomatic and Cold War history.
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