Viceroys
The Creation of the British
$35.81
- Hardcover
432 pages
- Release Date
30 August 2018
Summary
Between 1858 and 1947, twenty British men ruled millions of some of the most remarkable people of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the Indian Mutiny to the cruel religious partition of India and the newly formed and named Pakistan, the Viceroy had absolute power, more than the monarch who had sent him. Selected from that exclusive class of English, Scottish and Irish breeding, the aristocracy, the Viceroys were plumed, rode elephants, shot tigers. Even their wives stood when they …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472124753 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1472124758 |
| Author: | Christopher Lee |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 30 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 802g |
| Dimensions: | 243mm x 171mm x 38mm |
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A richly rewarding work of history– Military History
A richly rewarding work of history * Military History *
About The Author
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee completed his BBC history of Great Britain, This Sceptred Isle, during his time as Whittaker Fellow and Visiting Quatercentenary Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Viceroys came from that research time. From the Cambridge years also came, 1603 - the birth of the British Stuart dynasty; Trafalgar - the confrontation between Nelson and Napoleon and, his official abridgement of Winston S Churchill’s A History of the English-speaking Peoples.
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