Piers Brendon
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- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
ISBN 978-0-241-19641-0
EAN 9780241196410
'After my death,' George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself within twelve months.' The forecast proved uncannily accurate. Edward VIII came to the throne in January 1936, provoked a constitutional crisis by his determination to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson, and abdicated in December. He was never ...
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- Pimlico, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 816 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6846-0
EAN 9780712668460
No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth's surface was painted red on the map. Where Britain's writ did not run directly, its influence, sustained by matchless ...
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