Freedom at Midnight

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Dominique Lapierre was[ born 30 July 1931 in Chatelalaillon, Charente-maritime, France] is a French author. Ahead of them lay a problem of a scope and on a scale no people had ever encountered before, a problem vast enough to beggar the most vivid imagination.

Because of these limitations this book is a place to start, not the place to stop in any serious study of South Asia, but reviewers who have suggested that the authors are apologists for the British are dead wrong. In this inspiring work, Dominique Lapierre tells stories of extraordinary love and heroism - performed by ordinary people.

The country that gave us Vlad Dracula, and whose citizens consider themselves descendants of ancient Rome, has traditionally preferred the status of enigmatic outsider.

Mahatma Gandhi was antagonistic to partition while Jinnah wanted a separate Muslim nation at all costs. Time Magazine raised a poetic salutation to this brilliantly written book, hailing it as the Song of India . Helen Rappaport, an expert in the field of Russian history, brings you the riveting day-by-day account of the last 14 days of the Russian Imperial family, in this first of two books about the Romanovs.Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? The 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 30 hours of interviews and thousands of pages of private diaries and notes the authors sifted through give this history a special inside look as seen by the man who, more than anyone, shaped the final outcome.