数量xxii, 786 p., [24] p. of plates : ; 25 cm.
一般注記The American Revolution and the slave trade -- Britannia's Indian Empire -- Australia, Canada, and New Zealand -- The Far East and Afghanistan -- Irish famine and Indian mutiny -- Towards conquest in Africa -- Cape to Cairo -- The Boer War and the Indian Raj -- Flanders, Iraq, Gallipoli and Vimy Ridge -- Ireland and the Middle East -- West and East -- Kanya and the Sudan -- The route to independence -- Singapore and Burma -- Ceylon and Malaya -- The Holy Land -- Suez invasion and Aden evacuation -- The Gold Coast of Africa and Nigeria -- Uhuru freedom: Kenya and the Mau Mau -- Rhodesia and the Central African Federation -- The West Indies and Cyprus -- The Falklands and Hong Kong.
Maps on endpapers.
"Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, London"--T.p. verso.