A grand strategy of peace

<i>A grand strategy of peace</i> is the first detailed account of Britain's role in the creation of the United Nations Organization during the Second World War. As a work of traditional diplomatic history that brings in elements of intellectual history the book describes how British officials diplomats politicians and writers - previously seen to be secondary actors to the United States in this period - thought about planned for and helped to establish a future international order. While in the present day many scholars and analysts have returned to the origins of the post- 1945 international system this book offers an exhaustive account of how the statesmen and more importantly the officials working below the statesmen actually conceived of and worked to establish a post-war world order.