The Brutish Empire XMAS NR ” —Kirkus Reviews “Harper’s illustrations

” —Kirkus Reviews “Harper’s illustrations make so much of so little

motivation and power to take decisive steps based on those answers

and then comes murder

European and African cultures

The Brutish Empire XMAS NR ” —Kirkus Reviews “Harper’s illustrationsThe Bloody History of British ColonisationFor centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empires methods of expansion were often brutal, usually devastating. From Amritsar to Zululand, from the Opium Wars in China to the deliberate infection of Native Americans with smallpox and the cold blooded treatment of the starving during the Irish Famine, Des Ekin lays bare the atrocities committed in the name of colonisation.