Andrew Stewart is a reader in conflict and diplomacy in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London and codirector of the King's Second World War Research Group. He is the author of several books on the Second World War, including The King's Private Army and Caen Controversy. He lives in Oxford, England.
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History tells us that the Second World War broke Britain as a great power, diminishing its military strength, ruining its economy, and precipitating a striking wave of decolonization. Nationalists and new superpowers dominated the post-war landscape, and ... SEE MORE