Freedom at Midnight : The Epic Drama of India's Struggle for Independence : New Edition

Freedom at Midnight : The Epic Drama of India's Struggle for Independence : New Edition
ISBN: 9780006388517
Publication Date: 12 June 1997

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. This is the India of Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Gandhi and the last viceroy, Mountbatten.

About the Authors

The enormous success of the international writing partnership of Collins and Lapierre is based on the phenomenal non-fiction bestsellers Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, Is Paris Burning? and O Jerusalem! More recently Lapierre wrote City of Joy (about Calcutta) and Larry Collins has written a number of thrillers published by HarperCollins (Fall From Grace, Maze and Black Eagles). Lapierre is French, Collins American.