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Piers Brendon

Piers Brendon

Piers Brendon is a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and a former keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre. His latest book is The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (Jonathan Cape, 2007).

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A moral audit of the British empire

An epic story of power, race, wealth, suffering and violence dominated much of the world for 250 years. Piers Brendon offers a balance-sheet of empire's achievements, follies and crimes.