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As presented, the book assumes that the locus of choice as to whether to keep or lose the empire was in Britain. But it very much was not - India, the lynch-pin of empire east of Suez, was leaving whether or not Britain wanted it to. Australia pivoted to the US mid-war. South Africa and Canada too went their own ways. The scatter of dependencies left were a burden, not an asset.

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