The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence
And yet when independence came on the stroke of midnight of August 14, 1947, events unfolded with a violence that shocked the world: entire trainloads of Muslim and Hindu refugees were slaughtered on their flight to safety -- not by the British, but by each other. Macaulay's dream had become a flawed and bloody reality. The Proudest Day is a riveting account of the end of the Raj, the most romantic of all the great empires. Anthony Read and David Fisher tell the whole epic story in compelling and colorful detail from its beginnings more than a century earlier; their powerful narrative takes a fresh look at many of the events and personalities…
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Weitere Autoren: Read, Anthony
- ISBN: 978-0-393-31898-2
- EAN: 9780393318982
- Produktnummer: 9423881
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 565 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.8 cm x D2.6 cm 721 g
- Gewicht: 721
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Anthony Read is the author of many books, most recently The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle. He lives in England.
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