Author: COLLINS, LARRY & DOMINIQUE LAPIERRE
Title: Freedom at Midnight
Description: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 0671220888. Remainder; B&W Illustrations; 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.4 inches; 572 pages; Hard cover is black with gold lettering on spine. Boards have slight rubbing, bumping. DJ has light rubbing, scuffing, shelf wear; in a mylar cover. Bottom of text block has brown line next to spine. Pages are clean and itght; appears as if unused. Illustrated with b/w photographs. "The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) 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 1947 one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen. But 400 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..." Bibliography; index.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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