"Britain and America--allies as well as rivals--shaped the first half of the twentieth century and laid the foundations of today's world. The struggle between Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd George to determine the peace at Paris in 1919, the part played by British and American bankers in rebuilding Europe in the 1920s, the remarkable alliance between the two countries in the defeat of Nazism, their role in the origins of the Cold War and the creation of NATO are all part of the story"--Jacket, page [2].