Freedom at Midnight

By: Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

This is the story of the eclipse of the British Raj and the birth of an independent India and Pakistan. The fabled India of the maharajas, with their palaces and harems, their gold-caparisoned elephants and their glittering private armies—the India of Kipling’s legendary army, with its young British officers commanding troops of a dozen races, religions, and castes—the India of tiger hunts and pigsticking, of sadhus and holy men— the India that was the heart and soul of an empire—underwent a violent transformation into the new India of Gandhi and Nehru, precursor of the Third World. At the center of this drama are Nehru, Jinnah, Mountbatten and, of course, Gandhi, the gentle prophet of revolution, who stirred the masses of the most populous area on earth without raising his voice.

©1975 Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre (P)1993 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“The song of India...illuminated like scenes in a pageant.” ( Time)

“Thrilling...staggers the imagination.” ( Daily Mail)

“Davidson sounds like a whole cast of characters himself.” ( Kliatt)

Great history of an important story

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Excellent memoir of the days leading upto India's freedom

this book covers the time from when Lord Mountbatten took over as the last Viceroy of India going into India's freedom from the British to the partition of India until the death of Mahatma Gandhi. The book does an excellent job of capturing the environment in India during the time of renaissance.

My man crush on Frederick Davidson continues!

In this reading, Frederick Davidson uses his velvet British accent and it is the best!

excellence

non-fiction, meticulously researched, that presents, reads, character builds, and world builds like a brilliant work of fiction.

This is an Epic for the modern era.

Engaging History

Amazing research told with an engaging narrative focused on the the human stories. Excellent narration.