Because, they could’ve simply left the country without forming a proper assembly or a constitution, leaving behind all their responsibility to the newly formed nations but they didn’t do so and I completely admire Britishers for it.

The writing style was very casual but it will take quite sometime to get into the book but once you are into it, you cannot stop reading it. Indians - even Gandhi, at points - come off looking like a pretty debilitated bunch and certainly not fit for self-rule. At the age of thirteen, he travelled to America with his father who was a diplomat (Consul General of France).

The book, though very well written, fails to provide the real picture of the struggle and suffering that Indians went through and tries to, through the power of the pe The way they have covered the whole period of Independence in over 650 pages is commendable, considering the fact that they have covered almost all the important events. It was a carefully elaborated christening present from Mountbatten and his staff to the Indian leaders, a guide to the awesome task that now lay before them.

A superb introduction to events which lead to the modern nation of India, but one should read other histories for some contradictory accounts. Gandhi's India between the conception of this book and its birth would have rocked even the most mature political society, and India's was always fragile and insecure. The circumcised penises of their Moslem male victims were hacked off and stuffed into their mouths or into the mouths of murdered Moslem women.It covers the six months prior to and six months after 8/15/47, when India and Pakistan gained independence from Britain.

Having been there most of the time in question and having assisted at must of the encounters (except, perhaps, serving the Maharaja his morning tea) I can vouch for the accuracy of its general mood. The subtitle alone makes it difficult for me to rate this book as more then one star but what you must understand is that this book was in no small part the last and greatest of Lord Louis Mountbatten's monuments to his tireless self promotion. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).

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. It was an international bestseller and any readers from outside the subcontinent are likely to get a very misleading picture. It details the last year of the British Raj, from 1947 to 1948, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last viceroy of British India, and ending with the death and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi. The authors have attached emotional factors into each and every page of this book by adding real-life experiences of the people of that period. Through this piece, the author-duo have delved into some of the darker sides of the prominent figures of that era and the whole populace as a whole.