Description and condition:

Black boards hardback, dustcover, 4to, 224pp, index, b/w and colour illustrations, maps.

Very good with nice bright clean pages throughout. In very good dustcover.

Contents:

Describes the rise and fall of the great nineteenth-century imperial powers. Exploring the reasons for the supremacy of the empire builders and the economic, tactical and humanitarian reasons and why such control was eventually unsustainable. Part of the Cassell's History of Warfare series.