Author: Read, Anthony; Fisher, David
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Year: 1999
ISBN: 0393318982
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: As New
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Description:
New book, 565 pages, 36 photos. This is a rivetting account of the end of the Raj, the most romantic of all the great empires. Beginning nearly a century earlier, the events and personalities involved, including Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah, are detailed to provide a compelling and colourfull account of the events that shook the British Empire, and unleashed violence that shocked the world.