Farewell the Trumpets - Softcover

Morris, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571290701 ISBN 13: 9780571290703

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2012

Synopsis

Volume three of Morriss Pax Britannica trilogy, but complete within itself, Farewell the Trumpets charts the decline and dissolution of the British Empire. Beginning with Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and detecting the first signs of decay in the Boer Wars, the book follows the diminishing empire through world wars, the loss of India and the death of Winston Churchill in 1955 to a somewhat tattered conclusion in the 1960s. Slightly off-mint.

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Review:

'Breathtaking ... A sensible and civilized view of imperial decline, nostalgic, regretful of some things, honest, justly proud, and curiously contented.' --New Statesman

'The British Empire is fortunate in having found in Morris a chronicler and memorialist who can do it justice ... Morris writes with inspired gusto, firmly rooted in erudition, which carries the book into the realms of literature.' --Sunday Telegraph

'A monument to immense perceptive industry, filling the text with shrewd knowledge and information ... This is, triumphantly, a traveller's book, as well as a journalist's and a writer's.' --The Economist

'One of our finest writers on Empire - alive to its glory, yet with a beady eye for the corruptions and failures which were at its heart, along with the dreams.' --Observer

Book Description:

Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat by Jan Morris is a masterpiece of narrative history that traces the gradual demise of the British Empire and culminates with the death of Winston Churchill in 1965.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0571290701
• ISBN 13: 9780571290703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576