Freedom at Midnight

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Jack Loveridge’s reviews of “Wavell: the Viceroy’s Journal,” “Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography,” “The Decline, Fall, and Revival of the British Empire,” and “The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan. Beautifully written to make stories from around the period of independence sound like a collection of creative short stories. On this Independence Day know the true emotions of your independence by reading “Freedom At Midnight” by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre!

Every Sikh and Hindu officer spoke, often with tears in his eyes, to bid farewell to the Moslem Colonel Mohammed Idriss, who had led them through some of the bitterest fighting of World War II. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

The authors have spoken about the Partition from an emotional perspective of a group of people who have been living as brothers and fought the British together for their freedom has to go separate ways after the Independence. It then continues with the chaos and bloodshed of the split, until ending with Gandhi’s assassination in 1948.

Raj was, indeed, the cue for the unbelievably rapid disintegration of all European colonial domination everywhere. In a nutshell, British Raj in India can be described as history's most grandiose accomplishment that had the most banal of origins. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. If two brothers were living together in the same house and wanted to separate and live in two different houses, would you object?

Well, be rest assured that this book will end up ripping out each of those notions and burning them to cinders. The authors, very blatantly quote that "a land of 83% illiterates got independent, but they forget to quote that it was them, who ruled these masses for 200 years, which makes them solely responsible for everything, right(a few) or wrong. The quartet of Jinnah, Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel ( Iron man of India), along with Lord Mountbatten were the decision-makers for India's fate, which, to the chagrin of all Hindu leaders, was a 'Partition'.

There is also a very horrifying and realistic account of the tragedy of partition and its bloody aftermath. Having been there most of the time in question and having assisted at must of the encounters (except, perhaps, serving the Maharaja his morning tea) I can vouch for the accuracy of its general mood.

spirits of some of the ruthless war criminals, and human rights violators of the British Empire would find solace in reading this book. But I do not like the authors telling me that Simla is “a miniature Sussex hamlet,” when of all the earthly things Simla could be, a Sussex hamlet is not one of them.