Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins

Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins

This is the story of the eclipse of the British Raj and the birth of an independent India and Pakistan. The fabled India of the maharajas, with their palaces and harems, their gold-caparisoned elephants and their glittering private armies--the India of Kipling's legendary army, with its young British officers commanding troops of a dozen races, religions, and castes--the India of tiger hunts and pigsticking, of sadhus and holy men--the India that was the heart and soul of an empire--underwent a violent transformation into the new India of Gandhi and Nehru, precursor of the Third World. At the center of this drama are Nehru, Jinnah, Mountbatten and, of course, Gandhi, the gentle prophet of revolution, who stirred the masses of the most populous area on earth without raising his voice.

The enormous success of the international writing partnership of Collins and Lapierre is based on the phenomenal non-fiction bestsellers OR I’LL DRESS YOU IN MOURNING, IS PARIS BURNING? and O JERUSALEM! More recently Lapierre wrote CITY OF JOY (about Calcutta) and Larry Collins has written a number of thrillers published by HarperCollins (FALL FROM GRACE, MAZE and BLACK EAGLES). Lapierre is French, Collins American.

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ISBN 13	9780006388517
ISBN 10	0006388515
Title	Freedom at Midnight
Author	Larry Collins
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	1997-06-12
Number of pages	656
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