“What are the best books about The British Empire?” We looked at 200 of the top books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 19 titles, all appearing on 2 or more “Best British Empire” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 150+ titles, as well as the lists we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
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This concluding volume brings readers up to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965.
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“Three of George MacDonald Fraser’s incomparable and hilarious novels featuring the lovable rogue, soldier, cheat, and coward: Harry Paget Flashman.
Praised by everyone from John Updike to Jane Smiley, Fraser was an acknowledged master of comedy and satire, an unrivaled storyteller, whose craft was matched only by his impeccable historical research. And his greatest creation was, of course, Flashman. The novels collected here find our hero in the midst of his usual swashbuckling adventures of derring-do: fleeing adversaries in the First Anglo-Afghan War; meeting and nearly deceiving a young Abraham Lincoln in America; alternately impersonating a native Indian cavalry recruit and wooing women in India; and managing, whatever the circumstances, to keep his hero’s reputation unsullied.
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The opening volume of Morris’s “Pax Britannica Trilogy,” this richly detailed work traces the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837 to the celebration of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
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This novel tells the story of Kimball O’ Hara (Kim), who is the orphaned son of a soldier in the Irish regiment stationed in India during the British Raj. It describes Kim’s life and adventures from street vagabond, to his adoption by his father’s regiment and recruitment into espionage.
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“Book One in Jane Gardam’s Old Filth Trilogy
Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has carried with him the wounds of a difficult and emotionally hollow childhood. Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life. He slips back into the past with ever mounting frequency and intensity, and on the tide of these vivid, lyrical musings, Feathers approaches a reckoning with his own history. Not all the old filth, it seems, can be cleaned away.
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“Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. He traveled 100,000 miles back and forth, from Antarctica to the Caribbean, from the Mediterranean to the Far East, to capture a last glint of imperial glory.
His adventures in these distant and forgotten ends of the earth make compelling, often funny reading and tell a story most of us had thought was over: a tale of the last outposts in Britain’s imperial career and those who keep the flag flying.”
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“When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the mid-nineteenth century, it expects a quick and easy conquest. India is fractured and divided into kingdoms, each independent and wary of one another, seemingly no match for the might of the English. But when they arrive in the Kingdom of Jhansi, the British army is met with a surprising challenge.
Instead of surrendering, Queen Lakshmi raises two armies—one male and one female—and rides into battle, determined to protect her country and her people. Although her soldiers may not appear at first to be formidable against superior British weaponry and training, Lakshmi refuses to back down from the empire determined to take away the land she loves.
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Jeff Shaara dazzled readers with his bestselling novels Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure, and Gone for Soldiers. Now the acclaimed author who illuminated the Civil War and the Mexican-American War brilliantly brings to life the American Revolution, creating a superb saga of the men who helped to forge the destiny of a nation.
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterranean-lands that had been forgotten since Roman times, or had never been known at all. In The Blue Nile, Alan Moorehead continues the classic, thrilling narration of adventure he began in The White Nile, depicting this exotic place through the lives of four explorers so daring they can be considered among the world’s original adventurers — each acting and reacting in separate expeditions against a bewildering background of slavery and massacre, political upheaval and all-out war.
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Describes the nineteenth-century struggle between Britain and Russia for control of Central Asia
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Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.
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“India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years.
Farrell’s story is set in an isolated Victorian outpost on the subcontinent. Rumors of strife filter in from afar, and yet the members of the colonial community remain confident of their military and, above all, moral superiority. But when they find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their dominion—at once brutal, blundering, and wistful—is soon revealed.”
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Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead’s classic bestseller The White Nile — the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and impenetrable region on earth. Capturing in breathtaking prose the larger-than-life personalities of such notable figures as Stanley, Livingstone, Burton and many others, The White Nileremains a seminal work in tales of discovery and escapade, filled with incredible historical detail and compelling stories of heroism and drama.
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Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe’s critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa’s cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man’s futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order.
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“White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.
James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed Kahir un-Nissa—’Most excellent among Women’—the great-niece of the Nizam’s Prime Minister and a descendant of the Prophet. Kirkpatrick had gone out to India as an ambitious soldier in the army of the East India Company, eager to make his name in the conquest and subjection of the subcontinent. Instead, he fell in love with Khair and overcame many obstacles to marry her—not least of which was the fact that she was locked away in purdah and engaged to a local nobleman. Eventually, while remaining Resident, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam, and according to Indian sources even became a double-agent working for the Hyderabadis against the East India Company.It is a remarkable story, involving secret assignations, court intrigue, harem politics, religious and family disputes. But such things were not unknown; from the early sixteenth century, when the Inquisition banned the Portuguese in Goa from wearing the dhoti, to the eve of the Indian mutiny, the ‘white Mughals’ who wore local dress and adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassments to successive colonial administrations. William Dalrymple unearths such colourful figures as ‘Hindoo Stuart’, who travelled with his own team of Brahmins to maintain his temple of idols, and who spent many years trying to persuade the memsahibs of Calcutta to adopt the sari; and Sir David Ochterlony, Kirkpatrick’s counterpart in Delhi, who took all thirteen of his wives out for evening promenades, each on the back of their own elephant.”
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With the return of Hong Kong to the Chinese government in 1997, the empire that had lasted three hundred years and “upon which the sun never set” finally lost its hold on the world and slipped into history. But the question of how we understand the British Empire–its origins, nature, purpose, and effect on the world it ruled–is far from settled. In this incisive work, David Cannadine looks at the British Empire from a new perspective–through the eyes of those who created and ruled it–and offers fresh insight into the driving forces behind the Empire. Arguing against the views of Edward Said and others, Cannadine suggests that the British were motivated not only by race, but also by class. The British wanted to domesticate the exotic world of their colonies and to reorder the societies they ruled according to an idealized image of their own class hierarchies.
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Pax Britannica is actually a collection of three books charting the history of most of the British Imperial experience. The first book in the trilogy is entitled Heaven’s Command and charts the rise of the Victorian Empire. It documents the bravado, confidence, absent mindedness and cunning that led to the creation of the largest empire the world has ever seen. The second book is entitled Pax Britannica and is intended as a snapshot of the Imperial world at the apogee of its power in 1897. This is the year in which Queen Victoria held her Diamond Jubilee in truly imperial pomp and ceremony. The Final book is entitled Farewell the Trumpets and documents the final retreat from the great adventure.
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First published in 1888, “Plain Tales from the Hills” was Kipling’s first volume of prose fiction. Most of the stories it includes had already appeared in the “Civil and Military Gazette; ” they were written before he reached the age of 22; and they show a remarkably precocious literary talent. His vignettes of life in Brittish India a hundred years ago give vivid insight into Anglo-India at work and play, into a barrack-room life, and into the character of Indians themselves.
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Orwell draws on his years of experience in India to tell this story of the waning days of British imperialism. A handful of Englishmen living in a settlement in Burma congregate in the European Club, drink whiskey, and argue over an impending order to admit a token Asian.
# | Book | Author | Lists |
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21 | 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion | Morgan Llywelyn | Goodreads |
22 | A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1) | Libba Bray | Goodreads |
23 | A High Wind in Jamaica | Richard Hughes | Goodreads |
24 | A History of the English-Speaking Peoples | Wikipedia 2 | |
25 | A House for Mr Biswas | V.S. Naipaul | Goodreads |
26 | A Letter from Sydney | The Conversation | |
27 | A Passage to India | E.M. Forster | Goodreads |
28 | A Spear of Summer Grass | Deanna Raybourn | Goodreads |
29 | A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini | Goodreads |
30 | A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute | Goodreads |
31 | An Ice-Cream War | William Boyd | Goodreads |
32 | An Insular Possession | Timothy Mo | Goodreads |
33 | Behemoth | Scott Westerfeld | Goodreads 2 |
34 | Benedict Arnold: A Drama of the American Revolution in Five Acts | Robert Zubrin | Wikipedia |
35 | Beyond All Frontiers | Emma Drummond | Goodreads |
36 | Bhowani Junction | John Masters | Goodreads |
37 | Botany Bay | Charles Bernard Nordhoff | Goodreads |
38 | Bring Larks And Heroes | Thomas Keneally | Goodreads |
39 | Canada and the British Empire | Phillip Buckner | Goodreads 2 |
40 | Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian | Richard Hough | Wikipedia |
41 | Century of Wrong | The Conversation | |
42 | Circles in a Forest | Dalene Matthee | Goodreads |
43 | Circling the Sun | Paula McLain | Goodreads |
44 | Cities of Empire: The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World | Tristram Hunt | Goodreads 2 |
45 | Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 | Catherine Hall | Goodreads 2 |
46 | Commissions High | Roy MacLaren | Five Books |
47 | Curzon: Imperial Statesman | David Gilmour | Library Thing |
48 | Dark Eagle : A Novel of Benedict Arnold and the American Revolution | John Ensor Harr | Wikipedia |
49 | Day of Empire | Wikipedia 2 | |
50 | Domestic Manners of the Americans | Fanny Trollope | The Guardian |
51 | Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World | Niall Ferguson | Goodreads 2 |
52 | Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British | Jeremy Paxman | Goodreads 2 |
53 | English Passengers | Matthew Kneale | Goodreads |
54 | Fiela’s Child | Dalene Matthee | Goodreads |
55 | Flashman at the Charge (Flashman Papers, #4) | George MacDonald Fraser | Goodreads |
56 | Flashman’s Lady | George MacDonald Fraser | Goodreads 2 |
57 | For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World’s Favourite Drink | Sarah Rose | Goodreads 2 |
58 | Forget The Glory | Emma Drummond | Goodreads |
59 | Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945 | C.A. Bayly | Goodreads 2 |
60 | Forgotten War (book) | Wikipedia 2 | |
61 | Fragrant Harbor | John Lanchester | Goodreads |
62 | Fragrant Haven | Siobhan Daiko | Goodreads |
63 | Free Lance | George Shipway | Goodreads |
64 | Gender and Empire | Philippa Levine | Goodreads 2 |
65 | Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Goodreads |
66 | Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | Goodreads |
67 | Heat And Dust | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Goodreads |
68 | Her Majesty’s Secret Service | Christopher Andrew | Library Thing |
69 | Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill | Candice Millard | Goodreads 2 |
70 | Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia | Michael Korda | Goodreads 2 |
71 | Hind Swaraj | The Conversation | |
72 | Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire | David Anderson | Goodreads 2 |
73 | History of England | The Conversation | |
74 | Hong Kong | Jan Morris | Library Thing |
75 | Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest | Anne McClintock | Goodreads 2 |
76 | Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya | Caroline Elkins | Goodreads 2 |
77 | Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire | Alex von Tunzelmann | Goodreads 2 |
78 | Jane Eyre | The Conversation | |
79 | Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan | Florentia Sale | The Guardian |
80 | King Solomon’s Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1) | H. Rider Haggard | Goodreads |
81 | Kingfishers Catch Fire | Rumer Godden | Goodreads |
82 | Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire | Peter Hopkirk | Goodreads 2 |
83 | Lord Jim | Joseph Conrad | Goodreads |
84 | Master and Commander | Patrick O’Brian | Goodreads 2 |
85 | Master Georgie | Beryl Bainbridge | Goodreads |
86 | Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie | Goodreads |
87 | Mihiriga ya Agikuyu | The Conversation | |
88 | Mister Johnson | Joyce Cary | Goodreads |
89 | Morgan’s Run | Colleen McCullough | Goodreads |
90 | Mr. Kipling’s Army | Byron Farwell | Library Thing |
91 | Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #1) | C.S. Forester | Goodreads |
92 | My Brilliant Career | Miles Franklin | The Guardian |
93 | My Twenty-one Years in the Fiji Islands | The Conversation | |
94 | National Life and Character | The Conversation | |
95 | Nightrunners of Bengal | John Masters | Goodreads |
96 | North-west Frontier | Arthur Swinson | Library Thing |
97 | One Last Look | Susanna Moore | Goodreads |
98 | Original Letters from India | Eliza Fay | The Guardian |
99 | Out of Africa | Karen Blixen | The Guardian |
100 | Phenomena: The Lost and Forgotten Children | Susan Tarr | Goodreads 2 |
101 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | Joan Lindsay | Goodreads |
102 | Pirate Latitudes | Michael Crichton | Goodreads 2 |
103 | Prester John | John Buchan | Goodreads |
104 | Profiles in Folly | Wikipedia 2 | |
105 | Queen Victoria’s Little Wars | Byron Farwell | Library Thing |
106 | Rabble in Arms | Kenneth Roberts | Goodreads |
107 | Rags Of Glory | Stuart Cloete | Goodreads |
108 | Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916 | Peter de Rosa | Goodreads |
109 | Return of a King | Wikipedia 2 | |
110 | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi | Rudyard Kipling | Goodreads |
111 | Rorke’s Drift: The Zulu War, 1879 | James W. Bancroft | Library Thing |
112 | Sanders Of The River | Edgar Wallace | Goodreads |
113 | Sandokan: The Two Tigers | Emilio Salgari | Goodreads |
114 | Scouting for Boys | The Conversation | |
115 | Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1) | Amitav Ghosh | Goodreads |
116 | Shadow of the Moon | M.M. Kaye | Goodreads |
117 | She (She, #1) | H. Rider Haggard | Goodreads |
118 | Shooting an Elephant | George Orwell | Goodreads |
119 | Some Far Elusive Dawn | Emma Drummond | Goodreads |
120 | Staying On | Paul Scott | Goodreads 2 |
121 | Stones of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj | Jan Morris | Library Thing |
122 | Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2) | James Clavell | Goodreads |
123 | Tales From the Dark Continent | Charles Allen | Library Thing |
124 | Tales from the South China Seas: Images of the British in South East Asia in the Twentieth Century | Charles Allen | Library Thing |
125 | Talwar | Robert Carter | Goodreads |
126 | Tanamera | Noel Barber | Goodreads |
127 | The Bastard (Kent Family Chronicles, #1) | John Jakes | Goodreads |
128 | The Black Jacobins | The Conversation | |
129 | The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire | John Newsinger | Goodreads 2 |
130 | The Boer War | Thomas Pakenham | Goodreads 2 |
131 | The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset | Philippa Levine | Goodreads 2 |
132 | The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk / Palace of Desire / Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3) | Naguib Mahfouz | Goodreads |
133 | The Crimean War: A History | Orlando Figes | Goodreads 2 |
134 | The Deceivers | John Masters | Goodreads |
135 | The Diamond Rock | Geoffrey Bennett | Wikipedia |
136 | The Empire Project | John Darwin | Five Books |
137 | The Empire Triptych | Jan Morris | The Guardian |
138 | The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World | Wikipedia 2 | |
139 | The Far Pavilions | M.M. Kaye | Goodreads |
140 | The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding | Robert Hughes | Goodreads 2 |
141 | The Four Feathers | A.E.W. Mason | Goodreads |
142 | The Generals | Simon Scarrow | Wikipedia |
143 | The Gentleman in the Parlour | W. Somerset Maugham | Library Thing |
144 | The Gift of Rain | Tan Twan Eng | Goodreads |
145 | The Ginger Tree | Oswald Wynd | Goodreads |
146 | The Glass Palace | Amitav Ghosh | Goodreads |
147 | The Grass Is Singing | Doris Lessing | The Guardian |
148 | The Great Mutiny: India 1857 | Christopher Hibbert | Goodreads 2 |
149 | The Honourable Schoolboy | John le Carré | Goodreads |
150 | The Horizon History of the British Empire | Stephen W. Sears | Library Thing |
151 | The Ideological Origins of the British Empire | David Armitage | Goodreads 2 |
152 | The Inner Life of Empires | Emma Rothschild | Five Books |
153 | The Jungle Books | Rudyard Kipling | Goodreads |
154 | The King’s Rifle: A Novel | Biyi Bandele-Thomas | Goodreads |
155 | The Kraals of Ulundi: A Novel of the Zulu War | David Ebsworth | Goodreads |
156 | The Ladies of Missalonghi | Colleen McCullough | Goodreads |
157 | The Last Hero | Peter Forbath | Goodreads |
158 | The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 | William Manchester | Goodreads 2 |
159 | The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 | William Dalrymple | Goodreads 2 |
160 | The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales #2) | James Fenimore Cooper | Goodreads |
161 | The Light Between Oceans | M.L. Stedman | Goodreads |
162 | The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy | Anthony Burgess | Goodreads |
163 | The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling | David Gilmour | Library Thing |
164 | The Man in the Wooden Hat | Jane Gardam | Goodreads 2 |
165 | The Man Who Would Be King | Rudyard Kipling | Goodreads |
166 | The Mulberry Empire | Philip Hensher | Goodreads |
167 | The Mulberry Forest | Dalene Matthee | Goodreads |
168 | The Mutiny | Julian Rathbone | Goodreads |
169 | The New Zealand Wars Trilogy | Maurice Shadbolt | Goodreads |
170 | The Orchid Tree | Siobhan Daiko | Goodreads |
171 | The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh | Linda Colley | The Guardian |
172 | The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure | Adam Williams | Goodreads |
173 | The Pelican History of England: Tudor England | S. T. Bindoff | Library Thing |
174 | The Piano Tuner | Daniel Mason | Goodreads |
175 | The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | Library Thing |
176 | The Rainbow and the Rose | Nevil Shute | Goodreads |
177 | The Raj Quartet | Paul Scott | Goodreads |
178 | The Razor’s Edge | W. Somerset Maugham | Goodreads |
179 | The Rise and Fall of the British Empire | Lawrence James | Goodreads 2 |
180 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Goodreads |
181 | The Secret River | Kate Grenville | Goodreads |
182 | The Singapore Grip | J.G. Farrell | Goodreads |
183 | The Triumph of the Sun (Courtney, #12) | Wilbur Smith | Goodreads |
184 | The White Woman on the Green Bicycle | Monique Roffey | Goodreads |
185 | There Is Room for You: A Novel | Charlotte Bacon | Goodreads |
186 | To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World | Arthur Herman | Goodreads 2 |
187 | To the Ends of the Earth | TM Devine | Five Books |
188 | Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia | Karl E. Meyer | Library Thing |
189 | Travels in West Africa | Mary Kingsley | The Guardian |
190 | Troubles | J.G. Farrell | Goodreads |
191 | Tune That They Play | William Clive | Library Thing |
192 | Understanding the British Empire | Ronald Hyam | Five Books |
193 | Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain | John Darwin | Goodreads 2 |
194 | When the Going Was Good | Evelyn Waugh | Library Thing |
195 | Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys | Goodreads |
196 | Wilderness At Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent | Ted Morgan | Library Thing |
197 | Will Poole’s Island | Tim Weed | Goodreads |
198 | Young Bloods | Simon Scarrow | Wikipedia |
199 | Zemindar | Valerie Fitzgerald | Goodreads |
200 | Zulu Victory: The Epic of Isandlwana and the Cover-up (Greenhill Military) | Ron Lock | Library Thing |
Source | Article |
Five Books | David Cannadine recommends the best books on the British Empire |
Goodreads | The Sun Never Sets On The British Empire |
Goodreads 2 | Popular British Empire Books |
Library Thing | Best British Empire History Books |
Telegraph | Kwasi Kwarteng picks five great books about empire |
The Conversation | The books that shaped the rise and fall of the British empire |
The Guardian | Top 10 books about women in the British empire |
Wikipedia | British Empire in fiction |
Wikipedia 2 | History books about the British Empire |
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