freedom at midnight larry collins and dominique lapierre

The story of India's struggle for independence, told in this account (first published in 1975) by two journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants - from Mountbatten to the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi. This is the India of Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Gandhi and the last viceroy, Mountbatten. In this reconstruction, Collins and Lapierre recount the eclipse of the British Raj and examine the roles enacted by, among others, Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Mountbatten in its violent transformation into the new India and Pakistan.

But 400 million people were to find that the immediate price of freedom was partition and war, riot and murder.

On 14 August 1947 one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence in India. With an instinct for drama and a skill in narration, the authors take the reader from Whitehall to Delhi, to Calcutta, to Lahore, to Pula, to the villages of the Punjab and Bengal their hold on the reader never falters.' - JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH About the Author:īook Description Paperback. It will give more non-Indians more knowledge of the vast circumstances surrounding the birth of India than anything previously written. 'A heroic tale that has not been told a tenth as, well before. illuminated in scenes like a pageant.' - TIME 'I defy a reader to put the book down once Robinson has got him into the air.' Paul Fussell, NEW REPUBLIC 'The song of India.

It is a work of scholarship, of investigation, research and of significance.' JAMES CAMERON, NEW YORK TIMES The dialogue is convincing, the story is emotionally moving and it contains some of the best descriptions of battle I've read.' - TIME OUT Having been there most of the time in question, I can vouch for the accuracy of its general mood. 'There is no single passage in I this profoundly researched book that one could actually fault.

Freedom at midnight larry collins and dominique lapierre