Freedom at Midnight

ISBN-13: 9780006388517 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 656 str.

Dominique Lapierre

Opis

On 14 August 1947 one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence in India. But 400 million people were to find that the immediate price of freedom was partition and war, riot and murder. 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.

O autorze

An American who has lived in Europe for over forty years, Larry Collins was a top newspaper man before turning to books in a fantastically successful partnership with Dominique Lapierre. They have been equally successful since going their separate ways.