Have you heard of William MacNaghten? Alexander Burnes? Do you remember the massacre of the British garrison from Kabul, or the awful retribution that followed?
Yes, WWII was the direct precipitating event for the breakup of the British Empire, but the seeds of its destruction were sown long ago in that great Central Asian imperial struggle with Russia.
Yes, WWII was the direct precipitating event for the breakup of the British Empire, but the seeds of its destruction were sown long ago in that great Central Asian imperial struggle with Russia.