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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Chronology -- Who's who -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- PART I Prologue -- 1 The Anglo-American 'Special Relationship' -- PART II Britain, America, and the origins of the 'Special Relationship' -- 2 The Anglo-American relationship before 1939 -- The uneasy relationship, 1782-1900 -- Britain, America, and stability in international politics, 1900-1914 -- The drift to co-operation in the First World War, 1914-1918 -- The Paris Peace Conference and the American return to isolationism, 1919-1920 -- Anglo-American economic competition, 1919-1939 -- Arms limitation and international security, 1919-1939 -- 3 The Second World War and the advent of the 'Special Relationship' -- The immediate origins of the Relationship, September 1939-December 1941 -- Churchill and Roosevelt: war and diplomacy, December 1941-November 1943 -- Britain, America, and the advent of a new world order, November 1943-May 1945 -- PART III Cold War, limited war, and the 'Special Relationship', 1945-2015 -- 4 The 'Special Relationship' and the early Cold War, May 1945-July 1954 -- The genesis of the Cold War, May 1945-June 1948 -- The German question and the rise of NATO, June 1948-May 1954 -- Britain, America, and decolonisation in East Asia, May 1945-July 1954 -- 5 From Cold War to détente, 1954-1968 -- British decolonisation and the road to Suez, 1954-1956 -- Britain, America, and the problem of the Middle East, November 1956-November 1968 -- European defence and the German question, 1954-1968 -- 6 From détente to renewed Cold War, 1965-1979 -- Britain and American involvement in Vietnam, January 1965-April 1973 -- Britain, America, and European economic integration, January 1969-December 1979 -- Soviet Russian expansionism and the Anglo-American response, May 1975-December 1979