Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division
Patrick French
Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division "French, Patrick" - United Kingdom Penguin Books Ltd 27/01/2011 - 496 Paperback
"National liberation & independence, post-colonialism"
"""Liberty or Death"" is Patrick French's vivid and surprising account of the chaotic final years of colonial rule in India, acclaimed as the definitive book on this subject. At midnight on 14 August 1947, Great Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces. The greatest mass migration in history began, as Muslims fled north and Hindus fled south, and Britain's role as an imperial power came to an end. Journeying across India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, Patrick French brings to life a cast of characters including spies, idealists, freedom fighters and politicians from Winston Churchill to Mahatma Gandhi. The result is a compelling story of deal-making, missed opportunities, hope and tragedy. ""A fine, lucid book...vividly drawn with novel-like touches"". (""Hanif Kureshi""). ""Extraordinarily able and nuanced...a brilliant book on an important subject...French is the most impressive Western historian of modern India currently at work"". (""Herald""). ""Beautifully written"". (""Sunday Times""). ""French is a natural storyteller...a delightful tale of intrigue, ham-handedness and just plain blundering"". (""India Today""). Patrick French is the author of ""India: A Portrait"", ""Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer"", which won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Prize, ""Tibet"", ""Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land"", ""The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul"", which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize."
General (US: Trade)
9780241950401
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000"
Asian history
"National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
20th century
India
954.0359 PAT
Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division "French, Patrick" - United Kingdom Penguin Books Ltd 27/01/2011 - 496 Paperback
"National liberation & independence, post-colonialism"
"""Liberty or Death"" is Patrick French's vivid and surprising account of the chaotic final years of colonial rule in India, acclaimed as the definitive book on this subject. At midnight on 14 August 1947, Great Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces. The greatest mass migration in history began, as Muslims fled north and Hindus fled south, and Britain's role as an imperial power came to an end. Journeying across India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, Patrick French brings to life a cast of characters including spies, idealists, freedom fighters and politicians from Winston Churchill to Mahatma Gandhi. The result is a compelling story of deal-making, missed opportunities, hope and tragedy. ""A fine, lucid book...vividly drawn with novel-like touches"". (""Hanif Kureshi""). ""Extraordinarily able and nuanced...a brilliant book on an important subject...French is the most impressive Western historian of modern India currently at work"". (""Herald""). ""Beautifully written"". (""Sunday Times""). ""French is a natural storyteller...a delightful tale of intrigue, ham-handedness and just plain blundering"". (""India Today""). Patrick French is the author of ""India: A Portrait"", ""Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer"", which won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Prize, ""Tibet"", ""Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land"", ""The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul"", which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize."
General (US: Trade)
9780241950401
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000"
Asian history
"National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
20th century
India
954.0359 PAT