The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire Piers Brendon

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Zusammenfassung

No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire.

Within a generation this mighty structure collapsed, often amid bloodshed, leaving behind a scatter of sea-girt dependencies and a ghost of an empire, the Commonwealth, overshadowed by Imperial America.

The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire Zusammenfassung

The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire Piers Brendon

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. Yet no empire (except the Russian) disappeared more swiftly.

Within a generation this mighty structure collapsed, often amid bloodshed, leaving behind a scatter of sea-girt dependencies and a ghost of an empire, the Commonwealth, overshadowed by Imperial America. It left a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife.

Full of vivid particulars, brief lives, telling anecdotes, comic episodes, symbolic moments and illustrative vignettes, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire is popular history at its scholarly best.

The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire Bewertungen

A monumental new history * The Times *
This is a huge and hugely impressive book, mighty in scale as its subject, elegantly written and rigorous in its research * Daily Telegraph *
Magnificent...a narrative masterpiece. The settings are exotic, the cast of thousands full of the most eccentric, egotistical, paranoid, swashbuckling players you are likely to meet in any history -- Richard Overy * Sunday Telegraph *
A provocative, marvellously readable account * Financial Times *
Brilliant... A masterpiece of historical narrative. No review can hope to do justice to the depth of Brendon's research, the balance and originality of his conclusions, or the quality and humour of his prose. Our imperial story has been crying out for a top-flight historian who can write. Now it has one * Literary Review *

Über Piers Brendon

Piers Brendon is the author of more than a dozen books, including biographies of Churchill and Eisenhower, the best-selling Eminent Edwardians, Eminent Elizabethans and The Dark Valley. He also writes for television and contributes frequently to the national press. Formerly Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre, he is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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GOR001283947

ISBN 13

9780712668460

ISBN 10

0712668462

Titel

The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire Piers Brendon

Autor

Piers Brendon

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Broschiert

Verlag

Vintage Publishing

Datum

20081002

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816

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