Decline and Fall of the British Empire

Piers Brendon

RRP: £9.99

Publisher: VINTAGE

Publication Date : 02/10/2008

Paperback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Paperback edition of a monumental new history by the Churchill College, Cambridge author of "Eminent Edwardians" and "Dark Valley", full of brief lives, telling anecdotes and symbolic moments underpinned by the scholarship of an established academic researcher. 'A real achievement' "Independent". 'A disturbingly entertaining story of massacre, famine, rape, torture and loot on a grand scale' "Scotland On Sunday".

Publisher's description:

No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. This book presents the story of the decline and eclipse of British might, the major historical event in the closing stages of the second millennium.

ISBN: 9780712668460