In 1939 Lord Linlithgow the Viceroy, declared India at war with Germany without consulting one India...

At Independence, Britain's achievement of bringing unity to India was destroyed, mainly due to Winst...

By early 1947, British soldiers and officials could no longer control India. Their numbers had falle...

The British Army and Chinese Communists fought side-by-side against Japanese forces in the Malayan j...

In promising the Jewish people a home in a country which belonged to Arabs, the British were embarki...

In 1953 the British exercised imperialist muscle and toppled Iranian PM Mohammad Mosaddegh -- who ha...

Egypt was formally part of the empire from 1914 to 1922, but the Suez Canal zone remained central to...

Britain thought it could hang on to Aden after giving independence to all its principal colonies in ...

Leading Cypriots petitioned twice to join Greece in a dominant Greek political state -- in 1830 upon...

Riots in Accra and other Gold Coast towns in 1948 tested Britain's post-India strategy of power shar...

Mau Mau -- depraved barbarians to the British, desperate nationalists in their own eyes -- waged a b...

In 1953 Britain launched a huge new state in Africa made up of the present Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mal...

In a 15-year rebellion, white Rhodesians seized independence illegally and held it in the face of wo...