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David Olusoga reveals how the British Empire fell apart.
David Olusoga reveals how the Empire reached its maximum size after the First World War, but within a generation had begun to collapse.
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David Olusoga reveals how the Empire reached its maximum size after the First World War, but within a generation had begun to collapse.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipThe first World War ended not only with victory for the forces of Britain and its empire, but with the last great expansion of that empire, because it was in the years after the war as Britain took over the colonies of the defeated powers that the empire reached its maximum size.
And yet, at that moment, the empire was just one generation away from collapse.
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