The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire

A monumental new history * The Times *
This is a huge and hugely impressive book, mighty in scale as its subject, elegantly written and rigorous in its research * Daily Telegraph *
Magnificent…a narrative masterpiece. The settings are exotic, the cast of thousands full of the most eccentric, egotistical, paranoid, swashbuckling players you are likely to meet in any history – Richard Overy * Sunday Telegraph *
A provocative, marvellously readable account * Financial Times *
Brilliant… A masterpiece of historical narrative. No review can hope to do justice to the depth of Brendon’s research, the balance and originality of his conclusions, or the quality and humour of his prose. Our imperial story has been crying out for a top-flight historian who can write. Now it has one * Literary Review *
In recent years the British Empire has been the subject of fresh scrutiny… Now Piers Brendon brings his own sharp eye to the debate… This he does superbly: with brio and panache and, often, a mordant wit…This is a real achievement and an important one * Independent *
The conquest of one quarter of the world’s surface was, as Piers Brendon shows in disturbingly entertaining fashion, a story of massacre, famine, rape, torture and loot on a grand scale….Brendon with an acute eye for detail and the tragic-comic bon mot, serves up a veritable gorefest in which all sides slake their lusts * Scotland on Sunday *

Piers Brendon is the author of more than a dozen books, including biographies of Churchill and Eisenhower, the best-selling Eminent Edwardians, Eminent Elizabethans and The Dark Valley. He also writes for television and contributes frequently to the national press. Formerly Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre, he is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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