Cette saga épique retrace l'ascension de l'Empire Britannique au cours d'un siècle charnière, de l'accession de la Reine Victoria à son jubilé de diamant. Elle explore la vaste portée de l'influence impériale à travers les continents, détaillant aussi bien les avant-postes coloniaux et les jardins exotiques que les centres commerciaux animés. La série capture l'aventure, l'ambition et les conséquences considérables de cette expansion mondiale. C'est un regard panoramique sur la construction du monde moderne.
Tells the story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The author evokes every aspect of the 'great adventure', ranging from ships and botanical gardens to hill stations and sugar plantations, as she traces the impact of empire on places as diverse as Sierra Leone and Fiji.
This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at the height of their vigor and self-satisfaction, imposing their traditions and tastes, their idealists and rascals, on diverse peoples of the world.
Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965.