freedom at midnight by dominique lapierre and larry collins

It became one of the best sellers of postwar France and other European countries. His twenty thousand miles of adventure beginning with just thirty dollars in his pocket led to his first book A Dollar for a Thousand kilometers. The Chicago Tribune paid him $100 for his exclusive story. He found the driver before the police did. One day a truck driver who picked him up on the road to Chicago stole his suitcase. living an adventurous existence, wrote articles, washed windows in churches, gave lectures, and even found a job as a siren cleaner on a boat returning to Europe. Later, he received a scholarship to study the Aztec civilization in Mexico. Lapierre renovated a 1927 Nash that his mother gave him and decided to travel across the United States during his summer holidays. He developed interests in travelling, writing, and cars. He attended the Jesuit school in New Orleans and became a paper boy for the New Orleans Item.

with his father who was a diplomat (Consul General of France). At the age of thirteen, he travelled to the U.S. Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers ISBN: 9780006388517 Number of pages: 656 Weight: 460 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 42 mm You may also be interested in.Dominique Lapierre (30 July 1931 – 2 December 2022) was a French author.ĭominique Lapierre was born in Châtelaillon-Plage, Charente-Maritime, France. This is the India of Jawaharlal Nehru, heart-broken by the tragedy of the country's division of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, a Moslem who drank, ate pork and rarely entered a mosque, yet led 45 million Muslims to nationhood of Gandhi, who stirred a subcontinent without raising his voice of the last viceroy, Mountbatten, beseeched by the leaders of an independent India to take back the powers he'd just passed to them.

In this superb reconstruction, Collins and Lapierre recount the eclipse of the fabled British Raj and examine the roles enacted by, among others, Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Mountbatten in its violent transformation into the new India and Pakistan. But 400 million people were to find that the immediate price of freedom was partition and war, riot and murder. On 14 August 1947 one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen. The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds of interviews with nearly all the surviving participants - from Mountbatten to the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi.

Freedom at midnight by dominique lapierre and larry collins