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Jan Morris: Farewell the Trumpets - An Imperial Retreat

Pax Britannica, Vol. 3 (abridged)

read by Roy McMillan

  • Release Date: 6th Mar 2012
  • Catalogue No: NA0039
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Series: Non-Fiction
  • Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

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Contents

Jan Morris: Farewell the Trumpets (Abridged)

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

An Introduction…

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Farewell the Trumpets

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There was calculation…

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The day after the Khartoum memorial service…

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The British also sent the French…

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And if to the public at home…

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It was too late, anyway…

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On the face of it…

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Spion Kop was one of the most…

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It was the first of the propaganda wars…

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Sea-captains of every nationality…

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In 1905 the British decreed…

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Many aspects of Victorianism…

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Our second grandee…

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For generations the British in India…

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The first part of the plan…

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The British slept that night…

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In 1905: a Liberal Government…

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Such, many times multiplied…

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The Turkish possession called Mesopotamia…

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Early the next afternoon…

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But of the three imperial campaigns…

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Fisher resigned…

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The Gallipoli campaign lasted 259 days…

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The British Empire had more than survived the war…

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For though self-determination…

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For another generation…

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This was the inflammatory situation…

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Two remarkable members…

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When war came…

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After the Easter Rising…

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Before the war…

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For it was to prove a febrile relationship…

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Among those most deeply affected…

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In the meantime…

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Nobody then, nobody later…

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On March 12, 1930…

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Later in the year…

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The most lavish exercise…

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Since it seemed likely…

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Still the Empire proceeded…

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In hindsight one can see…

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So the Dominions diverged…

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On October 4, 1930…

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The British were paying…

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The greatest of all their works…

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It did not come naturally…

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There was an imperial folklore…

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But in the last generation…

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In Kenya was Lord Delamere…

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In London was Frederick John Dealtry Lugard…

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Alas for Ronald Storrs…

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Several great women travellers…

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Hard times had come for the British people…

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At another extreme…

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Hitler went to war…

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Without her equivocal allies…

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It so happened…

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The Australians and New Zealanders…

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Harold Macmillan, a future Prime Minister…

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A more baleful view of the Empire…

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On March 22, 1947…

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The knot was worse than the Gordian…

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Mountbatten hoped to leave behind a federal united India…

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The Viceroy was not deterred…

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They rationalised the Commonwealth…

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But we must narrow our focus…

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The Arabs were no less passionate in opposition…

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Sometimes sceptically…

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It was nearly over now…

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Mauritius was another relic…

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In the winter of 1967…

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Of all the charges of Empire…

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Churchill died, and it died with him…

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