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Heaven’s Command

10 Ratings

3.9

Duration
20H 9min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris’s masterly telling of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering achievement: informative, accessible, entertaining and written with all her usual bravura. Heaven’s Command, the first volume, takes us from the crowning of Queen Victoria in 1837 to the Diamond Jubilee in 1897, moving effortlessly across the Empire, from the shores of England to Fiji, Zululand, the Canadian prairies and beyond. Truly gripping history.

© 2014 Naxos Audiobooks (Audiobook): 9781843794660

Release date

Audiobook: May 1, 2014

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