Farewell the Trumpets - An Imperial Retreat (Pax Britannica, Vol. 3) (Abridged)

Jan Morris - Read by Roy McMillan

Roy McMillan
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): An Introduction…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Farewell the Trumpets
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): There was calculation…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): The day after the Khartoum memorial service…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): The British also sent the French…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): And if to the public at home…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): It was too late, anyway…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): On the face of it…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Spion Kop was one of the most…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): It was the first of the propaganda wars…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Sea-captains of every nationality…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): In 1905 the British decreed…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Many aspects of Victorianism…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Our second grandee…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): For generations the British in India…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): The first part of the plan…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): The British slept that night…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): In 1905: a Liberal Government…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Such, many times multiplied…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): The Turkish possession called Mesopotamia…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Early the next afternoon…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): But of the three imperial campaigns…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Fisher resigned…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): The Gallipoli campaign lasted 259 days…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): The British Empire had more than survived the war…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): For though self-determination…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): For another generation…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): This was the inflammatory situation…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Two remarkable members…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): When war came…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): After the Easter Rising…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Before the war…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): For it was to prove a febrile relationship…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Among those most deeply affected…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): In the meantime…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Nobody then, nobody later…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): On March 12, 1930…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Later in the year…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): The most lavish exercise…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Since it seemed likely…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Still the Empire proceeded…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): In hindsight one can see…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): So the Dominions diverged…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): On October 4, 1930…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): The British were paying…
The greatest of all their works…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): It did not come naturally…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): There was an imperial folklore…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): But in the last generation…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): In Kenya was Lord Delamere…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): In London was Frederick John Dealtry Lugard…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Alas for Ronald Storrs…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Several great women travellers…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Hard times had come for the British people…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): At another extreme…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Hitler went to war…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Without her equivocal allies…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): It so happened…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): The Australians and New Zealanders…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Harold Macmillan, a future Prime Minister…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): A more baleful view of the Empire…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): On March 22, 1947…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): The knot was worse than the Gordian…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Mountbatten hoped to leave behind a federal united India…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): The Viceroy was not deterred…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): They rationalised the Commonwealth…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): But we must narrow our focus…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): The Arabs were no less passionate in opposition…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Sometimes sceptically…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): It was nearly over now…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Mauritius was another relic…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): In the winter of 1967…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Of all the charges of Empire…
Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged): Churchill died, and it died with him… Roy McMillan, Contributor