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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 "Book of Empire" states that in 1914 the German Empire's colonies consisted of 1,027,820 square miles, including 322,200 in S.W. Africa and 291,950 in Cameroon (W. Africa), but within 3 weeks of WWI breaking out the Germans in Togoland (33,700 square miles, seized by Germany in 1884) unconditionally surrendered to Britain and France. The book also explains on page xi that essentially all of Germany's Empire had been acquired in just the 30 years from 1884-1914, some 384,180 square miles in East Africa falling to Germany in the five years between 1885-90. Germany also seized the Marshall Islands

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