Saki Dockrill. Britain's Retreat from East of Suez: The Choice Between Europe and the World? 1945-1968 (Cold War History.) strange York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp xvi, 293 $6500 ISBN 0-333-73236-7
Forget 1956 as a turning point in British history after the next to the first World War. Taking account of the real, now immeasurable, impact on the national consciousness, as well as the personal trauma for those directly involved, it is difficult otherwise to find largely convincing arguments to demonstrate that a great deal really changed following the Suez Crisis. Its impact was psychological rather than