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Indian Summer
Publisher:
SIMON & SCHUSTER
| Author:
ALEX VON TUNZELMANN
| Language:
English
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Category: History
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496
This is history bursting at the seams with English eccentrics and Indian gentry€¦the charm of Tunzelmann’s approach is to restore her cast to full and vital life’ Observer ‘A compelling narrative, sometimes controversial, occasionally perverse, never boring or unintelligent’ Spectator Fully revised and updated for the 7th anniversary. The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 4 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime minister-to-be; Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation; and Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the glamorous but unlikely couple who had been dispatched to get Britain out of India without delay. Within hours of the midnight chimes, however, the two new nations of India and Pakistan would descend into anarchy and terror. Indian Summer depicts the epic sweep of events that ripped apart the greatest empire the world has ever seen, and reveals the secrets of the most powerful players on the world stage: the Cold War conspiracies, the private deals, and the intense and clandestine love affair between the wife of the last viceroy and the first prime minister of free India. With wit, insight and a sharp eye for detail, Alex von Tunzelmann relates how a handful of people changed the world for ever.
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This is history bursting at the seams with English eccentrics and Indian gentry€¦the charm of Tunzelmann’s approach is to restore her cast to full and vital life’ Observer ‘A compelling narrative, sometimes controversial, occasionally perverse, never boring or unintelligent’ Spectator Fully revised and updated for the 7th anniversary. The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 4 million Indians from the British Empire. One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime minister-to-be; Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation; and Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the glamorous but unlikely couple who had been dispatched to get Britain out of India without delay. Within hours of the midnight chimes, however, the two new nations of India and Pakistan would descend into anarchy and terror. Indian Summer depicts the epic sweep of events that ripped apart the greatest empire the world has ever seen, and reveals the secrets of the most powerful players on the world stage: the Cold War conspiracies, the private deals, and the intense and clandestine love affair between the wife of the last viceroy and the first prime minister of free India. With wit, insight and a sharp eye for detail, Alex von Tunzelmann relates how a handful of people changed the world for ever.
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Alex von Tunzelmann lives in London. She read history at University College, Oxford, and afterwards worked as a researcher on books for authors including Jeremy Paxman, Felicity Lawrence, John Kay and Alison Wolf. Her first book, Indian Summer, was published by Simon & Schuster in 27.
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