Tears, Fire, and Blood: The United States and the Decolonization of Africa

Abstract

The Churchill complex is more complex than Buruma allows. Historians will continue to write the kind of high politics history that he has done, but they are also exploring the subject in other ways and widening the field valuably. Studies of culture, identity, memory and race, and Churchill himself, are now revealing much about why the relationship has had longevity despite vast asymmetry in power and different national histories.