Anderson, Gary. Review of Piers Brendon's THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. WASHINGTON TIMES January 4, 2008.

Brendon, Piers. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire. New York: Knopf, 2008. When Gen. Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, many Britons thought it was the beginning of the end of their empire. According to Piers Brendon in his book, "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire," they were both right and wrong. Soon after Yorktown, the same Gen. Cornwallis won a military victory that destroyed the power of the Indian Empire and paved the way for British domination of all of India. By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, England controlled an empire many times as large as Rome at her zenith. Yet, as Mr. Brendon points out, the doom of the empire lay in her greatest strengths. . . . Read the rest here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/04/the-rise-demise-of-an-empire/.