Captives
Subtitle: The story of Britain's pursuit of empire and how its soldiers and civilians were  held captive by the dream of global supremacy
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: January 7, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780375421525
First sentence: The strip of sea that brought them to the shores of their new prize and the entrance to the Mediterranean is famously volatile.