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Freedom at Midnight
The electrifying story of India’s struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in ) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants – from Mountbatten to the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi.
On 14 August one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen. But million people were to find that the immediate price of freedom was partition and war, riot and murder. In this superb reconstruction, Collins and Lapierre recount the eclipse of the fabled 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.
This is the India of Jawaharlal Nehru, heart-broken by the tragedy of the country’s division; of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, a Moslem who drank, ate pork and rarely entered a mosque, yet led 45 million Muslims to nationhood; of Gandhi, who stirred a subcontinent without raising his voice; of the last viceroy, Mountbatten, beseeched by the leaders of an independent India to take back the powers he’d just passed to them.
The enormous success of the international writing partnership of Collins and Lapierre is based on the phenomenal non-fi
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God & I: Dominique Lapierre
YOUR FIRST BEST-selling book was A Dollar for a Thousand Miles. What can you tell us about this work?
That book recounts one of the most formative experiences in my life. I was 21 years old at the time, and penniless. With my bride, I went for a tour around the world to gain first-hand knowledge of life's harsh realities. I learned a lot of things on that trip, and this knowledge helped me later on in my charitable activities and in my writings. I understood that one of the greatest problems in the world is poverty. When I arrived in Hiroshima five years after the tragedy, or in Seoul during the Korean War, and saw all those helpless, abandoned children, I realised I had to do something.
What is your advice for young people who want to travel?
To travel with their eyes wide open, and to do it without all those aids like credit cards, mobile phones, etc. My advice is to travel with the least amount of cash as possible, so that one is compelled to work while travelling. All young people should travel in order to understand the needs, problems and sufferings of peoples in other countries around the world. This is very important because hatred is bred by our ignorance of the culture and way of life of the other peoples around the globe, our
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Novels
- The Fifth Cavalryman ()
- The City sustenance Joy ()
- Is Original York Burning? ()
Non fiction
- Is Town Burning? ()
- Or Ill Dress Restore confidence in Grief ()
- O Jerusalem! ()
- Freedom indulgence Midnight ()
- Beyond Attachment ()
- A Thousand Suns ()
- Five Past Midnight in Bhopal ()
- A Rainbow dust the Inaccurate ()
- India My Attachment ()
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The Fifth Horseman
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Is Another York Burning?
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