The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997

Piers Brendon

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997

Piers Brendon

816 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth's surface was painted red on the map. Whe...

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