INDIAN SUMMER : THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE END OF AN EMPIRE
by VON TUNZELMANN, ALEX
List Price: HK$ 285.00
¡@ISBN
9780805080735
¡@Subject
ASIA
¡@Publisher
HENRY HOLT AND CO.
¡@Publication
2007
¡@Edition
Hardcover
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
The stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, liberated 400 million people from the British Empire. This defining moment had been brought about by a handful of people. Among them were Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery Indian prime minister; Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the leader of the new Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Mohandas Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation; and Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the glamorous but unlikely couple who had been dispatched to get Britain out of India. Behind the scenes, a secret personal drama was also unfolding, as Edwina Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru began a passionate love affair. Their romance developed alongside Cold War conspiracies, the beginning of a terrible conflict in Kashmir, and an epic sweep of events that saw one million people killed and ten million dispossessed. Indian Summer reveals, in exhilarating detail, how the actions of a few extraordinary people changed the lives of millions and determined the fate of nations.
