“No subject, I thought, as I picked up Freedom at Midnight, could be of less interest to me than a story of how Independence came to India after three centuries of British rule.

Collins and Lapierre have made human history breathtaking and heartbreaking.” It is all here: maharajas and tigers, filth and squalor, extravagance and macabre sex, massacres, smells, starvation, cruelty and heroism. The new sure-to-be bestseller by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. “Outrageously and endlessly fascinating is my awestruck reaction to Freedom at Midnight. The narrative is as lively, as informative and as richly detailed as a maharaja’s palace.” “Freedom at Midnight is a panoramic spectacular of a book that reads more like sensational fiction than like history, even though it is all true….

James Cameron, The New York Sunday Times It is a work of scholarship, of investigation, research and of significance.” Having been there most of the time in question and having assisted at most of the encounters, I can vouch for the accuracy of its general mood. “There is no single passage in this profoundly researched book that one could actually fault. The book was an international bestseller and achieved enormous acclaim in the United States, Italy, Spain, and France. A fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen-but the price of freedom was high, as a nation erupted into riots and bloodshed, partition and war.įreedom at Midnight is the true story of the events surrounding Indian independence, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last Viceroy of British India, and ending with the assassination and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi.

Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy’s House, New Delhi. OL1751683W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.92 Pages 614 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:8125904808 Urn:lcp:freedomatmidnigh00larr:epub:d3e32af6-2b6b-4ba7-b8ad-08ab78be8127 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier freedomatmidnigh00larr Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8nc74x22 Isbn 0330251457ĩ780330251457 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:18:02 Boxid IA103024 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City London Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition New edition External-identifier

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