The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire

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

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Piers Brendon is the author of more than a dozen books, including biographies of Churchill and Eisenhower, the best-selling<i>Eminent Edwardians, Eminent Elizabethans</i>and<i>The Dark Valley</i>. 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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