leightarrant
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Location: East Sussex |
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Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 5:07 pm |
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Just a note to say that ZULU has a large 10"x8" colour picture in the Evening Standard tonight depicting the Zulu warrior at the start of the movie holding up his shield and rifle to his fellow warriors before the credits start. Its the first time I've seen a colour picture this big in is any recent journals/newspapers in a long long while. (Maybe The Radio Times front cover last month is equal) Basically - Its for a book review entitled : The Decline and Fall of the British Empire 1781-1997 by Piers Brendon. (Cape publishers) The review of the book starts :
One of Piers Brendon's many revealing anecdotes, sprinkled through this history of the British Empire, tells us of a futuristic short story published in 1774. The writer imagines two visitors from 'The empire of America' touring the ruins of London in 200 years' time. In the story, the tourists gaze across empty, ruined streets to a single broken wall where Parliament once stood, a turnip field in the place of Whitehall, a stable where once Westminster Abbey once soared. London is no more, the British Empire is dead, and the sun has risen over Imperial America.
One of Brendon's great achievements in this splendid narrative is to remind us how, despite the apparant glories of the greatest empire in history, a sense of doom and foreboding was never far from British minds.
Sounds like a good and entertaining read....book is on sale now, but, nice picture to promote it for all us London readers in the early evening rush hour.
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