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Best British Empire History Books

Rank Titel Forfatter Tilføjet

1

The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia

af Peter Hopkirk

1,854 medlemmer

36 anmeldelser

4.2

2 Members: thorold, Luchtpint

2

Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress

565 medlemmer

9 anmeldelser

4

2 Members: staffordcastle, John_Vaughan

3

Queen Victoria's Little Wars

af Byron Farwell

322 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

4

2 Members: staffordcastle, John_Vaughan

4

Pax Britannica: the Climax of an Empire

af James Morris

599 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

4.1

2 Members: staffordcastle, John_Vaughan

5

Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat

af James Morris

471 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

4.2

2 Members: staffordcastle, John_Vaughan

6

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

af Winston S. Churchill

1,495 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: Bretzky1

7

af S. T. Bindoff

623 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

½ 3.3

Member: aulsmith

8

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire

af David Cannadine

342 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: thorold

9

Plain tales from the Raj : images of British India in the twentieth century

af Michael Mason

1 medlem

Member: John_Vaughan

10

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789

af Robert Middlekauff

1,700 medlemmer

20 anmeldelser

4

Member: Bretzky1

11

Mr. Kipling's Army

af Byron Farwell

206 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: staffordcastle

12

God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad

af Charles Allen

188 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: Luchtpint

13

Tales from the South China Seas: Images of the British in South East Asia in the Twentieth Century

af Charles Allen

131 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

14

Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42

af William Dalrymple

781 medlemmer

23 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: Luchtpint

15

The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)

af Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

341 medlemmer

6 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: Bretzky1

16

Tales From the Dark Continent

af Charles Allen

118 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 3.4

Member: John_Vaughan

17

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

280 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

18

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam

af John A. Nagl

433 medlemmer

8 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

19

Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783

af Brendan Simms

194 medlemmer

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

20

The Horizon History of the British Empire

af Stephen W. Sears

50 medlemmer

3

Member: staffordcastle

21

Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi

af Stanley Wolpert

125 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.4

Member: Bretzky1

22

Tune That They Play

af William Clive

12 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

5

Member: John_Vaughan

23

Curzon: Imperial Statesman

af David Gilmour

123 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: John_Vaughan

24

The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling

af David Gilmour

137 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.9

Member: John_Vaughan

25

Rorke's Drift: The Zulu War, 1879

af James W. Bancroft

21 medlemmer

Member: John_Vaughan

26

61 medlemmer

4

Member: John_Vaughan

27

The Gentleman in the Parlour

af W. Somerset Maugham

219 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

28

Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

af Simon Winchester

672 medlemmer

13 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

29

Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

af Karl E. Meyer

670 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: John_Vaughan

30

af Alan Moorehead

1,246 medlemmer

16 anmeldelser

4

Member: John_Vaughan

31

Jordens søjler

27,217 medlemmer

753 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: kageeh,Bretzky1

32

af Alan Moorehead

900 medlemmer

12 anmeldelser

4

Member: John_Vaughan

33

314 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

Member: John_Vaughan

34

Stones of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj

71 medlemmer

3.9

Member: John_Vaughan

35

af George Orwell

3,708 medlemmer

76 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

36

North-west Frontier

af Arthur Swinson

13 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

37

When the Going Was Good

af Evelyn Waugh

551 medlemmer

9 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

38

Her Majesty's Secret Service

af Christopher Andrew

193 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.5

Member: John_Vaughan

39

Wilderness At Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent

389 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: John_Vaughan

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Begyndt: John_Vaughan
januar 2012
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