«At the beginning of the Second World War there where some 200 colonies, dominions and possessions connected to London, covering more than 11 million square miles. The [British] Empire embraced Pacific tribesmen and Eskimos, ancient African kingdoms and the rubble of the great Mughal empire, Australian farmers and the gold-miners of South Africa. It ran from the Scottish Highlands to the Antarctic, from the French-speaking villages of Quebec to the mosques of the Middle East. For a comparatively small nation of fewer than 50 million people to have acquired all this might seem a global absurdity, a large joke in the history of humankind.»

Extret del llibre A History of Modern Britain d’Andrew Marr.

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