Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial RetreatThis concluding volume brings readers up to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. "Morris has written an unorthodox masterpiece...[a] book filled with superb studies of battles, ceremonies, landscapes, confrontations and, above all, characters" (New York Times Book Review). Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book |
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Viceroys Palace New Delhi frontispiece 2 Queen Victoria goes to sea facing page | 28 |
Military parade in London | 29 |
British troops in Ladysmith 1899 | 128 |
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