A tiger hunt in King George V's India; floggings of Burmese bandits; Charlie Chaplin's Hollywood; the coronation of Elizabeth II; the riot-torn streets of Belfast; John Lennon, looking stoned, climbing into the backseat of his Rolls-Royce at Buckingham Palace ... The distinguished historian Brian Moynahan has contributed a trenchant and illuminating history of his own country, from the height of Empire - when a quarter of humanity was British-ruled and four fifths of world trade was carried in British ships - to 1940, when the British Empire alone defied Nazi Germany, to the postwar emergence of Great Britain as the only true competitor to the United States in literature, theater, fashion, and global popular culture
Includes bibliographical references (page 300) and index
'God help us all' -- 'We happen to be the best people in the world ... ' -- High life, low life -- In Flanders field -- 'No more war ... for the moment' -- Finest hour -- 'My class is on the up and yours is on the down' -- Sex, sin and the sixties -- 'The winter of our discontent ... ' -- Iron lady
Notes
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