Imperial Endgame: Britain's Dirty Wars and the End of Empire

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Plates......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Maps......Page 15
Prologue......Page 18
I. A promised land, but to whom?......Page 22
II. The American intervention......Page 40
III. The terror begins again......Page 48
IV. The end of compromise......Page 65
V. Into the abyss......Page 75
VI. The Endgame in Palestine......Page 97
VII. Trouble comes to Malaya......Page 117
VIII. The appointment of Sir Harold Briggs......Page 144
IX. The Special Air Service, the Briggs Plan, and progress in Malaya......Page 157
X. The end of the Attlee years......Page 183
I. A new government, a new approach......Page 197
II. The carrot and the stick......Page 213
III. The challenge of Mau Mau......Page 232
IV. The General\'s stamp in Malaya......Page 250
V. \"The Horned Shadow of the Devil Himself\"......Page 257
VI. Dirty wars, dirty deeds......Page 275
VII. A fresh start in Kenya?......Page 288
VIII. The end of the Churchill years......Page 299
I. Problems in paradise......Page 321
II. Templer\'s return......Page 334
III. The Dirty wars become even dirtier......Page 348
IV. Suez......Page 362
V. The endgame for Anthony Eden......Page 373
Epilogue: The Imperial Endgame after Eden......Page 375
Notes......Page 402
Bibliography......Page 470
Index......Page 482