Freedom at Midnight

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Widely regarded as the definitive account of India’s struggle for independence, the book draws on extensive interviews with many of the central figures in the story, including Lord Mountbatten himself.

The end of an empire. The birth of two nations.

At midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy’s House, New Delhi. A fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen--but the price of freedom was high, as a nation erupted into riots and bloodshed, partition and war.

Freedom at Midnight is the true story of the events surrounding Indian independence, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last Viceroy of British India, and ending with the assassination and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi. The book was an international bestseller and achieved enormous acclaim in the US, Italy, Spain, and France.

Indien, India, Unabhängigkeit, Dekolonialisierung