How many people today know about Britain's deep involvement in the opium drug trade in China, or that Tony Blair's hero Gladstone devoted his maiden parliamentary speech to defending his family's slave plantation in Jamaica?
Introduction: the blood never dried
Chapter 1. The Jamaican rebellion and the overthrow of slavery
Chapter 4. The Great Indian Rebellion, 1857-58
Chapter 5. The invasion of Egypt, 1882
Chapter 6. The post-war crisis, 1916-26
Chapter 7. The Palestine Revolt
Chapter 9. The Suez invasion: losing the Middle East
Chapter 10. Crushing the Mau Mau in Kenya
Chapter 11. Malaya and the Far East
Chapter 12. Britain and the American Empire