Critiques en avant-premièreAlex Von Tunzelmann

At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the British Empire withdrew from India, inviting in all the exhilaration and turmoil of a newly free society. In this vivid, atmospheric popular history, Alex von Tunzelmann chronicles these times through the most prominent figures: Dickie Mountbatten, Britain's dashing, inept last viceroy; Dickie's savy, glamorous wife, Edwina, who found the love of her life in Jawaharlal Nehru, India's new prime minister; Muslim leader Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and Mohandas Gandhi. Tunzelmann's thrilling chronicle "removes the veil from the colorful personalities and events behind India's independence and partition with Pakistan.