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Best British Empire History Books

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia

by Peter Hopkirk

1,805 members

35 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thorold, Luchtpint

2

Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress

548 members

9 reviews

4

2 Members: staffordcastle, John_Vaughan

3

Queen Victoria's Little Wars

by Byron Farwell

320 members

7 reviews

4

2 Members: staffordcastle, John_Vaughan

4

Pax Britannica: the Climax of an Empire

by James Morris

577 members

5 reviews

4.2

2 Members: staffordcastle, John_Vaughan

5

Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat

by James Morris

451 members

3 reviews

4.2

2 Members: staffordcastle, John_Vaughan

6

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

by Winston S. Churchill

1,469 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: Bretzky1

7

by S. T. Bindoff

618 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: aulsmith

8

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire

by David Cannadine

337 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thorold

9

Plain tales from the Raj : images of British India in the twentieth century

by Michael Mason

1 member

Member: John_Vaughan

10

The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789

by Robert Middlekauff

1,649 members

20 reviews

4

Member: Bretzky1

11

Mr. Kipling's Army

by Byron Farwell

205 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: staffordcastle

12

God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad

by Charles Allen

183 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Luchtpint

13

Tales from the South China Seas: Images of the British in South East Asia in the Twentieth Century

by Charles Allen

130 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

14

Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42

by William Dalrymple

747 members

23 reviews

4.2

Member: Luchtpint

15

The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)

by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

337 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: Bretzky1

16

Tales From the Dark Continent

by Charles Allen

116 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: John_Vaughan

17

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

271 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: Bretzky1

18

Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam

by John A. Nagl

424 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

19

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

by Brendan Simms

189 members

½ 3.7

Member: Bretzky1

20

The Horizon History of the British Empire

by Stephen W. Sears

49 members

3

Member: staffordcastle

21

Gandhi's Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi

by Stanley Wolpert

124 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: Bretzky1

22

Tune That They Play

by William Clive

12 members

1 review

5

Member: John_Vaughan

23

Curzon: Imperial Statesman

by David Gilmour

121 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: John_Vaughan

24

The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling

by David Gilmour

136 members

1 review

3.9

Member: John_Vaughan

25

Rorke's Drift: The Zulu War, 1879

by James W. Bancroft

21 members

Member: John_Vaughan

26

61 members

4

Member: John_Vaughan

27

The Gentleman in the Parlour

by W. Somerset Maugham

210 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

28

Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

by Simon Winchester

664 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

29

Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

by Karl E. Meyer

652 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: John_Vaughan

30

by Alan Moorehead

1,224 members

16 reviews

4

Member: John_Vaughan

31

The Pillars of the Earth

26,681 members

746 reviews

4.2

Member: kageeh,Bretzky1

32

by Alan Moorehead

873 members

12 reviews

4

Member: John_Vaughan

33

311 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: John_Vaughan

34

Stones of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj

71 members

3.9

Member: John_Vaughan

35

by George Orwell

3,620 members

76 reviews

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

36

North-west Frontier

by Arthur Swinson

13 members

1 review

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

37

When the Going Was Good

by Evelyn Waugh

541 members

7 reviews

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

38

Her Majesty's Secret Service

by Christopher Andrew

191 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: John_Vaughan

39

Wilderness At Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent

381 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: John_Vaughan

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January 2012
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