Freedom at Midnight

ISBN: 1441746382

Author: Collins, Larry

Condition: New

Product Description [This is the MP3CD audiobook format][Read by Frederick Davidson]This is the story of the eclipse of the British Raj and the birth of an independent India and Pakistan. The fabled India of the maharajas, with their palaces and harems, their gold-caparisoned elephants and their glittering private armies -- the India of Kipling's legendary army, with its young British officers commanding troops of a dozen races, religions, and castes -- the India of tiger hunts and pigsticking, of sadhus and holy men -- the India that was the heart and soul of an empire -- underwent a violent transformation into the new India of Gandhi and Nehru, precursor of the Third World. At the center of this drama are Nehru, Jinnah, Mountbatten and, of course, Gandhi, the gentle prophet of revolution, who stirred the masses of the most populous area on earth without raising his voice. Review ''Magnificently enlightening and exciting.'' -- National Observer, Washington''The song of India...illuminated like scenes in a pageant.'' -- Time Magazine, New York''Thrilling...staggers the imagination.'' --Daily Mail''[Narrator] Davidson sounds like a whole cast of characters himself.'' --Kliatt About the Author Larry Collins (1929-2005) was born and raised in West Hartford, Connecticut, and was a graduate of Yale University. He was for more than ten years a foreign correspondent in North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, first for UPI and then for Newsweek, for which he was Paris Bureau chief.Dominique Lapierre was for many years senior reporter and editor for Paris Match. He is the author of several earlier books published in France, some of them based on his knowledge of the United States, where he attended Lafayette College and where his father served with the French diplomatic service.