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European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960 Mothers Day Only Fools and Horses made<i>European Empires from Conquest to Collapse< i> is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the history of imperial warfare. Global in scope, it deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa. Victor Kiernan lays bare the doctrines and realities of colonial fighting, dispelling official legends. Europe often boasted that coloni alism was civilised, but the facts show