Freedom At Midnight: The Electrifying Story Of India's Struggle For Independence
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
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Freedom at Midnight is a gripping, meticulously researched chronicle of one of the most dramatic political transformations of the twentieth century — the birth of an independent India at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre reconstruct the final, turbulent months of British rule with cinematic precision, placing at the centre of the narrative the towering figures of Lord Louis Mountbatten, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, whose clashing visions and fateful decisions would carve a subcontinent in two. The authors present an intimate portrait of partition's human cost, weaving together high-level diplomacy and street-level tragedy to convey the euphoria and the bloodshed that accompanied independence in equal measure. Collins and Lapierre, renowned for their immersive, novelistic approach to narrative non-fiction, draw on extensive interviews, declassified documents, and eyewitness accounts to produce a work of history that reads with the urgency of a thriller. Their writing illuminates the impossible moral calculus faced by leaders attempting to manage the aspirations of hundreds of millions of people, the violent fracturing of communities, and the end of an empire. Rich in character, atmosphere, and geopolitical insight, this landmark work leaves the reader questioning whether the price of freedom was ever truly reckoned with.
Author: Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre
Format: Paperback
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Freedom at Midnight is a gripping, meticulously researched chronicle of one of the most dramatic political transformations of the twentieth century — the birth of an independent India at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947. Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre reconstruct the final, turbulent months of British rule with cinematic precision, placing at the centre of the narrative the towering figures of Lord Louis Mountbatten, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, whose clashing visions and fateful decisions would carve a subcontinent in two. The authors present an intimate portrait of partition's human cost, weaving together high-level diplomacy and street-level tragedy to convey the euphoria and the bloodshed that accompanied independence in equal measure. Collins and Lapierre, renowned for their immersive, novelistic approach to narrative non-fiction, draw on extensive interviews, declassified documents, and eyewitness accounts to produce a work of history that reads with the urgency of a thriller. Their writing illuminates the impossible moral calculus faced by leaders attempting to manage the aspirations of hundreds of millions of people, the violent fracturing of communities, and the end of an empire. Rich in character, atmosphere, and geopolitical insight, this landmark work leaves the reader questioning whether the price of freedom was ever truly reckoned with.