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3 unusual facts about John Charmley


John Charmley

John Charmley, Lord Lloyd and the Decline of the British Empire (Weidenfeld, 1987).

Charmley appears to suggest Britain should have negotiated with Nazi Germany in 1940, that it would have been possible to do so honourably and that it would have safeguarded the British Empire better than an alliance with the anti-colonial U.S. President Roosevelt.

Splendid isolation

Some historians, such as John Charmley, have argued that Splendid Isolation was a fiction for the period prior to the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1892, and that the policy was reluctantly pursued thereafter.



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