Heath, Nixon and the Rebirth of the Special Relationship: Britain, the US and the EC, 196974 by Niklas H. Rossbach
This book reveals that 1969-74 was a crucial period for the special relationship. The Heath Government attempted to reverse Britain's decline as a great power by forging an American-European special relationship out of the Anglo-American relationship. Simultaneously the Nixon Administration tried to recoup the global position of the United States.