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The British Empire - How It Was Built and How It Fell by Piers Brendon
$19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn't trust the British in the dark. The joke was a backhanded tribute to the astonishing achievement of the inhabitants of small island kingdom off the European mainland. Beginning in the 17th century with a few colonia ...Show more
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
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. Where Britain's writ did not run directly, its influence, su ...Show more
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