Piers Brendon: The Decline and Fall of the British Empire
Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: «No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth’s surface was painted red on the map. Where Britain’s writ did not run directly, its influence, sustained by matchless industrial and commercial sinews, was often paramount. Yet no empire…