The British Empire: How It Was Built - And How It Fell

by Piers Brendon

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 colonial settlements and trading posts clinging like barnacles to alien shores, and expanding dramatically thereafter by occupation and conquest, they created...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911187856
• ISBN13: 9781911187851
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Connell Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.2"