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In its Victorian heyday the British Empire consisted of 58 countries with a population of 400 million. By then it was a far-flung but loosely-amalgamated assortment of dominions and dependencies that dwarfed its tiny base. In a book full of telling anecdotes and colourful characters Piers Brendon tells the story of this extraordinary empire, from its adolescence to its maturity to its demise