The Death of the Pound: How WWII Realigned Global Finance

Описание: Victory is expensive. For the British Empire, it cost everything.
While history focuses on the heroism of the Battle of Britain, the real war for survival was fought in the cold, ruthless ledgers of the U.S. Treasury. This is an analysis of the systemic liquidation of a superpower. From the desperate Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence of 1940 to the final debt payment in 2006, we examine how the United States used financial leverage to dismantle the British imperial trade system and inherit global hegemony.
In the world of geopolitics, there are no gifts—only transitions of power. This is the story of how the British Pound died so that the Dollar could rule.