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Farewell the Trumpets - An Imperial Retreat (Pax Britannica, Vol. 3) (Abridged)
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Farewell the Trumpets - An Imperial Retreat (Pax Britannica, Vol. 3) (Abridged)
Label Catalogue Number:
NA0039
NA0039
ISBN: 9781843794769
Download Size: 376 Mb
Running Time: 07:30:01
Download Size: 376 Mb
Running Time: 07:30:01
Release Date: January 2012
Originally recorded in 2012
Originally recorded in 2012
Author
Jan Morris
Jan Morris
Reader
Roy McMillan
Roy McMillan
Genre:
Spoken Word
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Spoken Word
History
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Farewell the Trumpets - An Imperial Retreat (Pax Britannica, Vol. 3) (Abridged)
Read by Roy McMillan
The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's masterly telling of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering achievement: informative, accessible, entertaining and written with all her usual bravura. This final volume charts the decline and dissolution of what was once the largest empire the world had known. From the first signs of decay in the imperial ambition in the Boer Wars, through the global shifts in power evident in the two World Wars, it offers a perspective that is honest, evocative and occasionally elegiac.
