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

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

Brendan Simms

801 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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This highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the story of Britain's extraordinary scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost everything it had gained. At the beginning of the eighte...

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