Monday, March 16, 2009

P. Brendon, Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997, ISBN978-0307268297

Absolutely brilliant narrative so awash in grandiloquence as to lose much of its power (816 pages in all). After reading this book I am in much more confusion as to the reasons of its decline and fall than before I took it up.

Read it though-- you will be amply rewarded.