From the Book - 1st American ed.
1. The World Turned Upside Down: The American Revolution and the Slave Trade
2. An English Barrack in the Oriental Seas: Britannia's Indian Empire
3. Exempt from the Disaster of Caste: Australia, Canada and New Zealand
4. To Stop Is Dangerous, to Recede, Ruin: The Far East and Afghanistan
5. Sacred Wrath: Irish Famine and Indian Mutiny
6. Spread the Peaceful Gospel-with the Maxim Gun: Towards Conquest in Africa
7. A Magnificent Empire Under the British Flag: Cape to Cairo
8. Barbarians Thundering at the Frontiers: The Boer War and the Indian Raj
9. The Empire, Right or Wrong: Flanders, Iraq, Gallipoli and Vimy Ridge
10. Aflame with the Hope of Liberation: Ireland and the Middle East
11. Englishmen Like Posing as Gods: West and East
12. White Mates Black in a Very Few Moves: Kenya and the Sudan
13. Spinning the Destiny of India: The Route to Independence
14. That Is the End of the British Empire: Singapore and Burma
15. The Aim of Labour Is to Save the Empire: Ceylon and Malaya
16. A Golden Bowl Full of Scorpions: The Holy Land
17. The Destruction of National Will: Suez Invasion and Aden Evacuation
18. Renascent Africa: The Gold Coast and Nigeria
19. Uhuru-Freedom: Kenya and the Mau Mau
20. Kith and Kin: Rhodesia and the Central African Federation
21. Rocks and Islands: The West Indies and Cyprus
22. All Our Pomp of Yesterday: The Falklands and Hong Kong