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by Piers Brendon (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 816 pages
  • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group; 1 edition (28 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0307268292
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307268297
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.4 x 5.2 cm
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5.0 out of 5 stars Absorbing. Balanced and an excellent true yarn., 29 Aug 2008
By ANDY (CORNWALL. UK.) - See all my reviews
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Im still reading this, It gives a considered and riveting tale of my Countrys History. Keep an open mind, fantastic achievements by towering figures, they were Empire builders and Empire spoilers, working to the values and ethics of their times. Reads like an action packed novel. Well done ancestors and well done this author.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ambitious, 7 Dec 2008
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This is an ambitious attempt to chronicle the rise and fall of the British Empire. And it is by no mean flawless. Still, the book's "unromaticising" of the Empire must not be taken too personally by some of the reviewers here. There is no victimisation - considered the looting the Empire has inflicted on its colonial subjects. This book is one of course readings at the LSE (not the bourse). And it is an eye-opener. I would also suggest "Merchants to multinationals : British trading companies in the nieteenth and twentieth centuries" by Geoffrey Jones, which explains more about the political economic impacts of the British Empire.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The demystification of the "Empire", 24 April 2009
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This is history at is best !Brendon has finally the courage as eminent scholar to tell te truth about the decline and fall of the British Empire.
His acute comments will surely displease many british readers because the EMPIRE was a slaughter of human lives an a serious attempt on the liberty of nations.The parallel with Gibbon's title is well chosen effectively it hits the stomach of those who were for centuries so proud of the great conquests of their nation.The pride goes before the fall and the haughtiness of the British was part of their collapse.
This book should be obligatory reading for every person interessted in a non biased history.
Well done mr Brendon !
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