Piers Brendon is the author of The Dark Valley, among other histories and biographies. He is the former Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He lives in Cambridge, England.
List of Illustrations | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Introduction | p. xv |
The World Turned Upside Down: The American Revolution and the Slave Trade | p. 3 |
An English Barrack in the Oriental Seas: Britannia's Indian Empire | p. 32 |
Exempt from the Disaster of Caste: Australia, Canada and New Zealand | p. 63 |
To Stop Is Dangerous, to Recede, Ruin: The Far East and Afghanistan | p. 97 |
Sacred Wrath: Irish Famine and Indian Mutiny | p. 119 |
Spread the Peaceful Gospel-with the Maxim Gun: Towards Conquest in Africa | p. 141 |
A Magnificent Empire Under the British Flag: Cape to Cairo | p. 184 |
Barbarians Thundering at the Frontiers: The Boer War and the Indian Raj | p. 219 |
The Empire, Right or Wrong: Flanders, Iraq, Gallipoli and Vimy Ridge | p. 254 |
Aflame with the Hope of Liberation: Ireland and the Middle East | p. 294 |
Englishmen Like Posing as Gods: West and East | p. 334 |
White Mates Black in a Very Few Moves: Kenya and the Sudan | p. 356 |
Spinning the Destiny of India: The Route to Independence | p. 379 |
That Is the End of the British Empire: Singapore and Burma | p. 421 |
The Aim of Labour Is to Save the Empire: Ceylon and Malaya | p. 444 |
A Golden Bowl Full of Scorpions: The Holy Land | p. 466 |
The Destruction of National Will: Suez Invasion and Aden Evacuation | p. 487 |
Renascent Africa: The Gold Coast and Nigeria | p. 516 |
Uhuru-Freedom: Kenya and the Mau Mau | p. 551 |
Kith and Kin: Rhodesia and the Central African Federation | p. 575 |
Rocks and Islands: The West Indies and Cyprus | p. 605 |
All Our Pomp of Yesterday: The Falklands and Hong Kong | p. 633 |
Abbreviations | p. 663 |
Notes | p. 665 |
Sources | p. 751 |
Index | p. 761 |
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