Patrick French LIBERTY OR DEATH First Edition Signed
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Patrick French LIBERTY OR DEATH First Edition Signed
First edition first print hardback of LIBERTY OR DEATH (India's Journey to Independence and Division) by Patrick French and published by HarperCollins in 1997. Signed by French on the title page. Previous owner gift inscription to front endpaper.The book is in very good condition (black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine) with tiny indentations to the top edge of the front board. The book is in a very good- unclipped dust jacket which has light creasing to the edges. Slight browning around the page edges. Internally the pages are otherwise clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
At midnight on August 14, 1947, Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire cracked into three pieces. The greatest mass migration in history began, as Muslims fled north and Hindus fled south, over a million being massacred on the way. Britain's role as world power came to an end and the course of Asia's future was irrevocably set. Patrick French offers a reinterpretation of the events surrounding India's independence and partition, including the disastrous mistakes made by politicians and the bizarre reasoning behind many of their decisions. Exploring the interplay between characters such as Churchill, Mountbatten and Gandhi, it reveals a tale of idealism and manipulation, hope and tragedy. With sources ranging from newly declassified secret documents to the memories of refugees, Patrick French gives an account of an epic debacle, the impact of which reverberates across Asia to this day.
467 pages including Illustrations, Epilogue, Notes, Bibliography and Index.
ISBN: 0002557711
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