Freedom at Midnight

Paperback, 576 pages

English language

Published Aug. 4, 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

ISBN:
978-0-00-638851-7
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OCLC Number:
39114364

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Freedom at Midnight (1975) is a non-fiction book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre about the events around the Indian independence movement and partition. It details the last year of the British Raj, from 1947 to 1948, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last viceroy of British India, and ending with the death and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi. The book is told in a casual style, similar to the authors' previous works, Is Paris Burning? and O Jerusalem!.

6 editions

Subjects

  • Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -
  • Colonization & independence
  • India
  • Pakistan
  • Politics/International Relations