Die Windsors: eine Familie, eine Dynastie, ein Königshaus. Seit mehr als hundert Jahren haben Mit...

Piers Brendon is the author of more than a dozen books, including biographies of Churchill and Ei...

In his account of four characterseach of whose importance was globaleach of themin their differen...

No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42...

Piers Brendon's magisterial overview of the 1930s is the story of the dark, dishonest decade - ch...

In this unique narrative, Brendon looks deeply into Churchill's admiration of the animal kingdom-...

'After my death', George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself in 12 mont...

The 1930s were perhaps the seminal decade in twentieth-century history, a dark time of global dep...

A comprehensive, scholarly, and fascinating study of the end of the British Empire, this work--fu...

The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn't trust the...