Farewell the Trumpets, Jan Morris
Farewell the Trumpets, Jan Morris
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Farewell the Trumpets

Author: Jan Morris

Narrator: Roy McMillan

Unabridged: 20 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 02/27/2012


Synopsis

The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris’s masterly telling of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering achievement: informative, accessible, entertaining and written with all her usual bravura. This final volume charts the decline and dissolution of what was once the largest empire the world had known. From the first signs of decay in the imperial ambition in the Boer Wars, through the global shifts in power evident in the two World Wars, it offers a perspective that is honest, evocative and occasionally elegiac.

About Jan Morris

Born in 1926, Jan Morris lived and wrote as James Morris until 1972. She resides with her partner, Elizabeth Morris, in northwest Wales, between the mountains and the sea. Her many books include In My Mind's Eye, Coronation Everest, and the Pax Britannica Trilogy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gordon on February 08, 2009

This book is one of the best on the late Victorian Empire that I have read, including The Last Lion, a book I have a guilty affection for. The blend of wry humor about a very serious empire and the knowing respect for true heroes is winning. The knowledge of details is wonderful. When I read it over......more

Goodreads review by Randall on November 02, 2023

Did you know Hawaii was British for five months in the 1843? Britain took over other countries either for profit or to “deny commercial rivals undue advantages.” For the Church of England, “the British were some sort of chosen people.” Jan says, “There were few in 1897 to question the morality of th......more

Goodreads review by Lewis on August 28, 2023

Majestic. Now that i've finished the entire trilogy all i can think of to say about it is that one word: Majestic. But i better put in few more words to make this review worth reading. This third volume is focused on the declining years of the Empire. The dismal fizzling-out of a once great thing. T......more

Goodreads review by Jules on May 08, 2023

Morris does it again. A great way to end the trilogy on the British empire. The author adopts a « snippets » approach once more broaching a variety of subjects from the historical facts, to architecture at the end of the empire or it’s relation to technology. As always Morries keeps a place of honou......more

Goodreads review by Timothy on February 04, 2017

As the third book in the Pax Britannica trilogy describing the rise, climax, and decline of the British Empire, this volume inevitably strikes a different note from the previous two. In structure it resembles the first volume, in the sense that it's essentially a chronological narrative, rather than......more