Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
9.8
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
25204
Points per Word
0.000198
Page Count
112
Points per Page
0.044643
Series
History's Great Defeats
Description
After World War I, the British Empire encompassed more than a quarter of the world's land area and population. As the century drew to a close it had almost completely vanished, having been eaten away by war, economic forces, international rivalries.