UK....very cool.....thank you....good luck w/ the new gig. For an amusing perspective on the Empire's great moments you've GOT to read George MacDonald Fraser's FLASHMAN series.....all fantastic...including "Flashman and the Tiger"....a highly amusing take on the engagement @ Rorkes's Drift. Fraser's other books encompass the sepoy mutiny, the american indian wars, the charge of the light brigade, the white rahjah of borneo.....all magnificent. And best of all a stand alone novel of an American gunslinger trying to make a go of it in Victorian London called "Mr. American". They're all enduring favorites I've reread time without number....hope they'll serve you well on night watch. Cheers............