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Wonder Book Of Empire 1925

Wonder Book of Empire (EXTRACTS), 6th edition including former German and Ottoman (Turkish) Empire additions in WWI, published in 1925. This is out of copyright, but is politically incorrect in some ways, so only the Empire map and a few extracts are included here. The "Wonder Book" series continued after WWII ("The Wonder Book of Science", "of Railways", "of Animals", "of the Farm", etc.), but this title was dropped from the list by 1957 when many of the British Colonies in Africa like Ghana and Nigeria were scheduled for independence, India having been lost shortly after the war. The 1925 "B…