Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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The sun was setting on the greatest empire the world had ever known — and Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat chronicles that magnificent, melancholic decline with the precision of a historian and the soul of a poet. The final volume in James Morris's celebrated Pax Britannica trilogy, this work traces the slow, inexorable dissolution of the British Empire across the first half of the twentieth century, from the hubris of the Boer War to the quiet, exhausted aftermath of the Second World War, painting a vivid portrait of a superpower relinquishing its grip on a world it once commanded. Morris writes with a rare combination of sweeping grandeur and intimate detail, capturing the characters, ceremonies, and contradictions of an empire built on both breathtaking ambition and profound injustice. The prose is elegiac yet unsentimental, honouring the genuine achievements of the imperial age while unflinchingly acknowledging its human costs. Weaving together dispatches from the far corners of the globe — from India to Africa to the Middle East — Morris constructs a narrative tapestry that is as much a meditation on power and its inevitable end as it is a work of history. For anyone who has ever wondered how the greatest empire in history simply... stopped, the answer awaits within these pages.
Author: James Morris
Format: Paperback
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
The sun was setting on the greatest empire the world had ever known — and Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat chronicles that magnificent, melancholic decline with the precision of a historian and the soul of a poet. The final volume in James Morris's celebrated Pax Britannica trilogy, this work traces the slow, inexorable dissolution of the British Empire across the first half of the twentieth century, from the hubris of the Boer War to the quiet, exhausted aftermath of the Second World War, painting a vivid portrait of a superpower relinquishing its grip on a world it once commanded. Morris writes with a rare combination of sweeping grandeur and intimate detail, capturing the characters, ceremonies, and contradictions of an empire built on both breathtaking ambition and profound injustice. The prose is elegiac yet unsentimental, honouring the genuine achievements of the imperial age while unflinchingly acknowledging its human costs. Weaving together dispatches from the far corners of the globe — from India to Africa to the Middle East — Morris constructs a narrative tapestry that is as much a meditation on power and its inevitable end as it is a work of history. For anyone who has ever wondered how the greatest empire in history simply... stopped, the answer awaits within these pages.