Customer Reviews
Absorbing. Balanced and an excellent true yarn. - By: ANDY, 29 Aug 2008 
Im still reading this, It gives a considered & riveting tale of my Countrys History. Keep an open mind, fantastic achievements by towering figures, they were Empire builders & Empire spoilers, working to the values & ethics of their times. Reads like an action packed novel. Well done ancestors & well done this author.
Excellent - By: LoveReading, 05 Feb 2008 Absorbing & comprehensive account of the decline of the British Empire.
No library should be without it.
The Decline, Fall and Condemnation of the British Empire - By: Eyrie, 14 Jan 2008 
Piers Brendon has certainly put an awful lot of scholarship, time & effort into this weighty, well-written, near-humourless deconstruction of a large section of British history, but unfortunately this feels like the work of a sniggering little modern mind. It has been the fashion for some time now ('political correctness' is such a boring cliche) to pull apart, criticize & pour scorn on so much of Britain's past & and so many of its heroes. Mr Brendon leaves no stone unthrown. I see the newspaper reviewers all give it the nod of approval - what a lot of sheep! His next book might well be subtitled, The Victims of the British Empire. One just wonders where the money came from to finance this acidic view of Britain's withdrawal from overstretched rule. Contrast the Empire with the Britain of today, falling apart at the seams! However, the book is certainly well worth reading for its scholarly detail, complete with resident devil.
