John Brodie Donald

John Brodie Donald was educated at Marlborough College and Exeter University and then spent 40 years working in investment banking and insurance in Tokyo, Hong Kong and London. Having spent half his life in the Far East, he now lives in London. A widower with two daughters, his interests include cartography, local history and progressive rock.

IMPERIAL NIGHTFALL SERIES

The Imperial Nightfall Series is a family history of the 20th Century. Based on the letters and journals of two previous generations of my family, it offers context on the decline and fall of the British Empire, seen through the prism of mundane family life. The people are gone, the Empire is gone, the countries’ names have changed. What we have left is the spider’s web of memoirs and correspondence. It's a set of primary historical accounts by people who were on the scene, at that moment, expressing their feelings and thoughts, often unaware of the magnitude of the events that were surrounding them. Nothing much seems to be happening but, in the background, everything is happening. The ordinary is, in fact, extraordinary.