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Piers Brendon
In his account of four characters, each of whose importance was global, each of them in their different ways monsters , Piers Brendon, who maintains that the Edwardian era has…
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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…
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Distinguished historian Brendon brings the tragic, dismal days of the 1930s to life in this sweeping narrative. The Dark Valley captures the vast scope of history as well as the…
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Margaret Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles, Mick Jagger - four figures who have illuminated our age. This title reveals how each one played out a major theme in the new…
In this worldwide survey of the 1930s, Brendon examines the great powers and their leaders and investigates how, and how far, contemporary minds knew what they knew, and the extent…
The astonishing story of how a small island in the North Atlantic created the largest empire ever known, one which at its height covered a quarter of the earth’s surface.
‘After my death,’ George V said of his eldest son and heir, ‘the boy will ruin himself within twelve months.’ The forecast proved uncannily accurate. He was never crowned king…
A comprehensive, scholarly, and fascinating study of the end of the British Empire, this work–full of vivid particulars, brief lives, telling anecdotes, comic episodes, symbolic moments and illustrative vignettes–evokes remote…
