by Patrick French · HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS LTD · tapa dura · ISBN 9780002557719
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«Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division» is the historical essay by Patrick French, published by HarperCollins in hardcover.
This work reinterprets the independence and partition of India in 1947: the end of the British Empire, the largest migration of the century and more than a million deaths. French examines the decisions of Churchill, Mountbatten and Gandhi using declassified documents and refugee testimonies, between idealism and manipulation.
Work originally published in English in 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; this hardcover edition has 352 pages.
For readers of contemporary history and the Indian subcontinent, interested in decolonization and the legacy of the British Empire.
Patrick Rollo Basil French was a British writer, historian and academician. He was the author of several books including: Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer (1994), a biography of Francis Younghusband; The World Is What It Is (2008), an authorised biography of Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul that won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States; and India: A Portrait (2011).
