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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

English

By (author): Alex Von Tunzelmann

This is history bursting at the seams with English eccentrics and Indian gentrythe charm of Tunzelmanns 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 70th anniversary.
The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 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. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Aug 2017
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781471166440

About Alex Von Tunzelmann

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 2007. 

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