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The story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than have ever been recorded before

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Traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This book explores the fierce geo-political struggle behind the heroic vision of the canal, and the immense engineering and medical battles that were fought.

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At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins wrecked, impoverished, grief-stricken by plague and civil war. What started out as a heaven was soon to become one of the cruellest places on earth.

The history of Willoughbyland is a microcosm of empire, its heady attractions and fatal dangers.

(Paperback)

The story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than have ever been recorded before

(Paperback)

Tells the story of Ian Fleming at Goldeneye in Jamaica, where all his novels and stories on James Bond were written. This book includes interviews with Ian's family, his Jamaican lover Blanche Blackwell and many other islanders. It deals with Ian Fleming's life and work.

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The compelling account of one of the most ferocious and costly battles of World War Two, including interviews with hundreds of veterans who have never spoken publicly before

(Hardback)

The story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than have ever been recorded before

(Paperback)

For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it was known as white gold.