Empire Made Me

This is a biography of a nobody that offers a window into an otherwise closed world. It is a life which manages to touch us all...'' Empire Made Mebr>br>Shanghai in the wake of the First World War was one of the world''s most dynamic, brutal and exciting cities - an incredible panorama of nightclubs, opium-dens, gambling and murder. Threatened from within by communist workers and from without by Chinese warlords and Japanese troops, and governed by an ever more desperate British-dominated administration, Shanghai was both mesmerising and terrible.Into this maelstrom stepped a tough and resourceful ex-veteran Englishman to join the police. It is his story, told in part through his rediscovered photo-albums and letters, that Robert Bickers has uncovered in this remarkable, moving book.>

Product details

• Authors: Robert Bickers, Robert A. Bickers
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.06.2004
• EAN: 9780141011950
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101195-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book; China, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Biography: general, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999