To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. And as I have been telling it more often, it was very emotional and that’s what made this book better than any other in this niche.

Dieser Artikel weist folgende Merkmale auf: Altersentsprechend nachgedunkelte/saubere Seiten in fester Bindung.Page after page, it summarized in its dull bureaucratic jargon the appalling implications of their decision. Based on the bestselling book of the same name, it recounts the partition of India and Pakistan, and the r.

Parcourez la librairie en ligne la plus vaste au monde et commencez dès aujourd'hui votre lecture sur le Web, votre tablette, votre téléphone ou un lecteur d'e-books. Few of the people in the hall could talk to each other in their native language; their only common tongue was the English of the colonizers, whose rule was about to end.Readers in Pakistan may find it particularly off-putting as it gives a very negative portrayal of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah and essentially is an argument against partition. The book is over 500 pages long and covers only one year - there is no mistaking how high and how vast the stakes are as one works through it. These fables have a tendency to sweep history in very broad strokes, ignoring much and instead forcing us into believing generalised facts such as those about all Britishers/foreigners being diabolic, all freedom fighters being pious to the hilt and many others. By that I mean the pain endured by people of Punjab and Bengal, the problems faced by the migrants, the communal violence and stuffs.

My distaste for this book notwithstanding,I acknowledge that the authors possess good storytelling skills. spirits of some of the ruthless war criminals, and human rights violators of the British Empire would find solace in reading this book. Freedom at Midnight' is a history book equivalent of 'In Which We Serve' a piece in which Mountbatten is centre stage as the last viceroy creating the new states of India and Pakistan and absolving both himself and the UK for the nightmare of bloodshed that Britain created. Sikh hordes roamed the countryside like bands of Apaches falling on Moslem villages or Moslem neighborhoods. Here is the Prime Minister Clement Attlee meeting the coming Viceroy Mountbatten: “With his sallow complexion his indifferently trimmed mustache, his shapeless tweed suits, which seemed blissfully ignorant of a pressing iron's caress, the man waiting for Mountbatten exuded in his demeanour something of that gray and dreary city.Ten million other Indians died each year from malnutrition, undernourishment and diseases like smallpox, eradicated in most parts of the earth.