Anglo-American relations in the twentieth century : of friendship, conflict and the rise and decline of superpowers
The lion and the eagle - of twisted tails and plucked feathers, a brief digression on method, identifying the contours of the relationship assertion and response 1900-1919, resolving differences and changing defence policies, economic rivalry, the impact of war, associated but not allied stability and change 1919-1939, debts, navies and economic policies 1920-1925, security and economic depression 1925-1934, the dictates of sentiment and the needs of self interest 1934-1939 in war and Cold War 1939-1951, intelligence, atomic and military co-operation 1941-1945, personal relations, postwar security plans, economic policy, an incomplete restoration of special relations 1946-1951 conservatively special 1951-1961, Churchill and Truman - Churchill and Eisenhower 1951-1955, the Far and Middle East Suez and its consequences 1956-1961, into the 1960s years of transition 1961-1979, economic policies, nuclear defence, sterling, defence and Bretton Woods 1964-1970, on loosing ones way 1970-1974, picking up the pieces 1974-1979 of interests and sentiment 1980-1995 and beyond, Reagan and Thatcher 1981-1989, changing and re-adjustments 1990-1995, concluding observations.