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Here's to Our Far-flung Empire: An Account of a Colonial Upbringing ReviewTony Orchard was born in Mombasa, Kenya on June 13, 1926, about one year after his parents met and married in Mombasa. Both his father and mother were English. His father "had been in the Royal Horse Artillery in the Great War (WW1), during which time he rose from the rank of a lance bombardier to a second lieutenant and served in Salonika and Mesopotamia." After a few adventures he "joined Shell (Oil) in Karachi, which then was part of British India, for the first of many three-year tours." One of the father's first orders of personal business was to find a likely lady to marry; he returned home to England and the hunt ensued. He found her and she was amenable to English colonial living where they could live far better than they could have in England. But for quite a long time, Tony wouldn't be living with them.
Thus began Tony's interesting, unusual, and eventful life, which he reveals to readers in a 240-page book that could have used an equal number of footnote pages and a good editor. Tony writes wonderfully, articulately, and interestingly, but though he understands the world and society of that time, most readers do not. I didn't have the time to do the research I would have liked to do in order to understand all the asides, oblique reference, and more obvious references that even though they might be obvious were lost on me as I read the first three chapters.
The book is a detailed autobiography of Tony's life that many who understand history better than I will love, and is a treasure for his family and many friends. I hope to finish it after I read a good history of the England of that period. Others who already are well informed should thoroughly enjoy this book.Here's to Our Far-flung Empire: An Account of a Colonial Upbringing Overview

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